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[Everardo Frost]

OnOctober 25, 2023, the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA) filed petitions with the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking antidumping (AD) duties on imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador and Indonesia, and countervailing (CVD) duties on such imports from Ecuador, India, Indonesia and Vietnam.

The petitions implicate a substantial volume of trade, with imports of subject frozen warmwater shrimp from the four countries amounting to $6.66 billion in 2022. In 2005, the DOC published AD orders on Frozen and Canned Warmwater Shrimp from China, India, Thailand and Vietnam, which remain in place today. Accordingly, if successful, the new petitions would add CVD liability for importers of frozen warmwater shrimp from India and Vietnam that are already subject to AD duty requirements, and would impose new AD and CVD liability for importers of frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador and Indonesia.

The products subject to these investigations are certain frozen warmwater shrimp and prawns whether wild-caught (ocean harvested) or farm-raised (produced by aquaculture), head-on or head-off, shell-on or peeled, tail-on or tail-off, deveined or not deveined, cooked or raw, or otherwise processed in frozen form.

A full description of the proposed scope, including the non-exhaustive list of covered further processed merchandise and descriptions of the merchandise that is specifically excluded from the proposed scope, is provided in Attachment 1.

According to official U.S. import statistics, a total of 1.5 billion tons and $6.66 billion of the subject merchandise was imported into the U.S. in 2022. The quantity and value of total subject merchandise covered by these petitions makes their trade impact one of the largest of any AD/CVD petition filed in the last several decades. The table below shows the 2022 quantity and value of frozen warmwater shrimp exported to the United States from each of the subject countries.

The below table provides the estimated schedule for the investigations before the ITC and DOC. The schedule assumes that the DOC will extend its statutory deadlines to the extent possible under the statute, which is its usual practice in investigations, particularly those involving large volumes of trade.

SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION

The scope of these investigations includes certain frozen warmwater shrimp and prawns whether wild-caught (ocean harvested) or farm-raised (produced by aquaculture), head-on or head-off, shell-on or peeled, tail-on or tail-off,25 deveined or not deveined, cooked or raw, or otherwise processed in frozen form.

The frozen warmwater shrimp and prawn products included in the scope, regardless of definitions in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), are products which are processed from warmwater shrimp and prawns through freezing and which are sold in any count size.

The products described above may be processed from any species of warmwater shrimp and prawns. Warmwater shrimp and prawns are generally classified in, but are not limited to, the Penaeidae family. Some examples of the farmed and wild-caught warmwater species include, but are not limited to, whiteleg shrimp (Penaeus vannemei), banana prawn (Penaeus merguiensis), fleshy prawn (Penaeus chinensis), giant river prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii), giant tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon), redspotted shrimp (Penaeus brasiliensis), southern brown shrimp (Penaeus subtilis), southern pink shrimp (Penaeus notialis), southern rough shrimp (Trachypenaeus curvirostris), southern white shrimp (Penaeus schmitti), blue shrimp (Penaeus stylirostris), western white shrimp (Penaeus occidentalis), and Indian white prawn (Penaeus indicus).

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On October 25, 2023, the American Shrimp Processors Association ("Petitioners") filed an antidumping duty ("ADD") petition on imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador and Indonesia, and a countervailing duty ("CVD") petition against frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The ADD petition alleges that imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador and Indonesia are being sold in the United States at less than fair value (that is, "dumped"). The CVD petition alleges that the governments of Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam are providing countervailable subsidies with respect to the production and export of frozen warmwater shrimp. Petitioners allege that the domestic industry has been materially injured and is threatened with further material injury because of the subject imports.

DOC will issue an ADD questionnaire to, and calculate a dumping rate for, one or more producers in each of the targeted countries. These producers are referred to as "mandatory respondents." The decision of which producers will receive the questionnaire will be based on export volumes. DOC could choose only one producer from each targeted country to respond to the questionnaire if it is possible to account for 80%-85% of exports with just one producer. If not, DOC will choose two or more producers from each targeted country.

The companies that are selected as mandatory respondents will receive dumping rates based on their actual data. If a company refuses to respond to the questionnaire, it will be assigned a dumping rate based on "adverse facts available," which is a punitive rate, typically based on the dumping rate calculated in the petition. The dumping rates alleged in the ADD petition range from 1.29% to 111.39% for Ecuador and from 4.85% to 37.36% for Indonesia.

The ADD questionnaire will request detailed information regarding US sales and home-market sales of frozen warmwater shrimp (transaction-specific prices, direct selling expenses, movement expenses, etc.) and production costs during the period of investigation ("POI"), which will be the period of October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023, for all targeted countries. DOC will also issue multiple supplemental questionnaires to clarify information reported in the initial responses. The burden of responding to the questionnaires is significantly increased if: (1) companies affiliated with the mandatory respondent also produce and/or sell the subject merchandise in the targeted countries; and/or (2) key materials used to produce the subject merchandise are purchased from affiliated suppliers.

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