The Norwegian Seafood Council has expressed its satisfaction with the US International Trade Commission’s decision to revoke the anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders against Norwegian Atlantic salmon.
NSC’s Director of Market Information, Egil Ove Sundheim, said, “It is gratifying to have these unnecessary trade barriers removed after more than 20 years. The Norwegian industry worked very hard to provide all of the information requested by the United States Government and we are very pleased that our information and arguments were fully considered.”
The US anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders against fresh and chilled Atlantic salmon from Norway covered whole fresh salmon, and were originally imposed in 1991. Removal of the prohibitive anti-dumping duty of nearly 24% is not considered a start of a significant increase in the exports of whole fresh and chilled salmon from Norway to the US.
“While we do not expect a significant increase in the exports of whole fresh salmon to the US market, the decision opens for Norwegian producers to respond to demand from segments in the US market willing to pay extra for whole fresh Norwegian salmon”, said Mr Sundheim.
The US market is the world's largest market for Atlantic salmon. Before the introduction of the restrictions, the US was among Norway's largest buyers of salmon and was of great importance in the early development of the Norwegian salmon farming companies which today forms the world’s leading salmon industry. Today the US market for Atlantic salmon is dominated by fresh whole salmon from Canada and fresh salmon fillets from Chile.
