December 8, 2023
News Release 23-110
Inv. No(s). 701-TA-699-702 and 731-TA-1659-1660
Contact: Elizabeth Nesbitt, 202-205-1819
USITC Votes to Continue Investigations on Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador, India, Indonesia, And Vietnam

The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) today determined that there is a reasonable indication that a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador and Indonesia that are allegedly sold in the United States at less than fair value and subsidized by the governments of Ecuador and Indonesia and imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from India and Vietnam that are allegedly subsidized by the governments of India and Vietnam.

Chairman David S. Johanson and Commissioners Rhonda K. Schmidtlein, Jason E. Kearns, and Amy A. Karpel voted in the affirmative. 

As a result of the Commission’s affirmative determinations, the U.S. Department of Commerce will continue its investigations of imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, with its preliminary countervailing duty determinations due on or about January 18, 2024, and its preliminary antidumping duty determinations due on or about April 2, 2024.

The Commission’s public report Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam (Inv. Nos. 701-TA-699-702 and 731-TA-1659-1660 (Preliminary), USITC Publication 5482, December 2023) will contain the views of the Commission and information developed during the investigations.

The report will be available by January 16, 2024; when available, it may be accessed on the USITC website at:  https://www.usitc.gov/commission_publications_library.

UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20436

FACTUAL HIGHLIGHTS

Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam
Investigation Nos. 701-TA-699-702 and 731-TA-1659-1660 (Preliminary)

Product Description: 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.

Status of Proceedings:

  1. Type of investigation:  Preliminary countervailing duty and antidumping duty investigations.
  2. Petitioners: American Shrimp Processors Association, Port Arthur, TX
  3. USITC Institution Date:  Wednesday, October 25, 2023.
  4. USITC Conference Date:  Wednesday, November 15, 2023.
  5. USITC Vote Date:  Friday, December 08, 2023.
  6. USITC Notification to Commerce Date:  Monday, December 11, 2023.

U.S. Industry in 2022:

  1. Number of U.S. producers:  20.
  2. Location of producers’ plants:  Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
  3. Production and related workers:  1,069.
  4. U.S. producers’ U.S. shipments:  $500 million.
  5. Apparent U.S. consumption:  $8 billion.
  6. Ratio of subject imports to apparent U.S. consumption:  82 percent.

U.S. Imports in 2022:

  1. Subject imports:  $7 billion.
  2. Nonsubject imports:  $960 million.
  3. Leading import sources:  India, Ecuador, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
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