Thailand Shrimp: Final Results of AD Admin Review
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand (A-549-822). The agency set rates for about 150 companies in the review. These rates will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for entries between Feb. 1, 2012 and Jan. 31, 2013. The two mandatory respondents, Thai Union and Pakfood, merged partway through the review period, so entries before and after the merger will be treated differently for assessment purposes. New AD duty cash deposit rates set in this review will take effect Aug. 28.
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New Cash Deposit Rates Take Effect Aug. 28
Effective Aug. 28, Commerce is setting new AD duty cash deposit rates for one individually investigated company, the now-merged Thai Union/Pakfood, and is assigning that rate to nearly 150 other companies. Companies that didn't get a rate in this review will continue to get the cash deposit rate set in the most recent previous administrative review, and companies that have never been assigned an AD rate will get the all others rate of 5.34%. The new rates are as follows:
| Exporter | AD Rate |
|---|---|
| Thai Union Frozen Products Public Co., Ltd. / Thai Union Seafood Co., Ltd. / Pakfood Public Company Limited / Okeanos Food Co., Ltd. / Okeanos Co. Ltd. / Asia Pacific (Thailand) Co., Ltd., / Chaophraya Cold Storage Co. Ltd. / Takzin Samut Co. Ltd. | 1.1% |
| Average Rate (for about 150 companies) | 1.1% |
Average rate companies. The 1.1% average AD rate applies to companies for which review was requested, but Commerce didn't have the resources to review each individually. See Commerce's notice for the full list of about 150 companies.
No shipments companies. Commerce found that 12 companies would have been reviewed, but demonstrated that they had no shipments of frozen fish fillets to the U.S. during the period under review. As such, subject merchandise from these 12 companies will continue to enter at AD cash deposit rates set in the most recent previous review (see notice for full list).
Assessment Rates For Entries February 2012 - January 2013
Commerce is using the rates it calculated in these final results to calculate assessments of AD duties on importers of subject merchandise for entries between Feb. 1, 2012 and Jan. 31, 2013. For entries before Thai Union and Pakfood merged on April 23, 2012, Commerce will calculate importer-specific assessments on importers from each individual company. For entries after the merger, Commerce will calculate importer-specific rates for the combined entity. For companies that got the review average rate, Commerce will use that 1.1% rate for assessment purposes.
(The review period is 02/01/12 -- 01/31/13. See Commerce's notice for more information, including the scope of the order, detailed cash deposit and assessment instructions, etc. See 14032126 for summary of the preliminary results of this administrative review.)
AD/CVD Operations contact -- Dennis McClure (202) 482-5973
(Federal Register 08/28/14)