The International Trade Commission has voted against imposing duties on shrimp imported from Thailand, Indonesia, China, India, Ecuador, Vietnam and Malaysia.
It says this decision will ensure American consumers will continue to have access to healthy, affordable shrimp.
“We are pleased the Commissioners recognised that imported shrimp has not caused harm in the American shrimp markets,” said John Connelly, president of the NFI. “NFI believes strongly that different shrimp serve different markets and highlighting a shrimp’s positive characteristics is the best means to grow a business.”
The Commission ruled the group of shrimp processors who brought the case failed to prove that any harm had been done to domestic shrimp by imports.
“We have maintained from the start that the domestic shrimp industry has not suffered any adverse effects from imported warm water shrimp,” added Warren Connelly, NFI’s lawyer. “The case is now over, and exporters and importers will be able to resume doing what they do best, which is supplying healthy, nutritious and safe shrimp to this country’s consumers at fair and reasonable prices.”
