SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Michael Ramsingh — June 26, 2014 — Louisiana's Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu has directed $3 million be used to collect anti-dumping duties from overseas seafood seafood exporters, specifically mentioning shrimp and crawfish exporters.
Sen. Landrieu is the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee and is using funds that are part of the Department's 2015 budget.
The directive will require Customs and Border Protection to work with the Commerce, Justice and Treasury departments to increase the collection of anti-dumping and countervailing duty fees from certain seafood exporters.
The Senator said the directive will target shrimp and crawfish meat exports, but will also include other seafood products from overseas suppliers. Landrieu's announcement was praised by the Southern Shrimp Alliance's Director John Williams.
Back in April key US shrimp suppliers Vietnam, India and Thailand were hit with increased anti-dumping duties during the Commerce Department's eight period of review. The estimated impact to importers was in the realm of $35 million.
However, previous attempts to levy CVD fines on overseas exporters including India, Thailand and Ecuador were tossed out last September by the US International Trade Commission.
The following story originally appeared on seafoodnews.com, a subscription site. It has been reprinted with permission.