Thailand Shrimp: Prelim Results of AD Admin Review
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand (A-549-822). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise for the 16 companies under review entered February 2023 through January 2024.
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Commerce said it is rescinding this review for 175 companies with no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise during the review period. The complete list appears in Appendix II of the notice.
Two companies under review -- Phattana Frozen Food Co., Ltd. and Thai Union Manufacturing Company Limited -- reported that they made no shipments to the U.S. during the review period. While Commerce has no evidence to contradict their statements, it said, they will remain under review for issuing appropriate instructions in the final results. Commerce said that if the no-shipments finding continues, "we will instruct CBP to liquidate any suspended entries that entered under their AD case number (i.e., at that exporter’s rate) at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction." The all-others rate currently is 5.34%.
Commerce has ordered liquidation “as entered” at the cash deposit rate in effect at the time of entry for subject merchandise from exporters for which a review was not requested (ADCVDWeb Message # 4137408).
Cash Deposit Requirements
Once Commerce issues its final results, new AD cash deposit requirements may take effect for some companies, beginning on the date of publication of the final results in the Federal Register. Commerce preliminarily calculated the following AD cash deposit rates:
| Exporter | AD Rate (Prelim) |
|---|---|
| Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Co., Ltd. | 57.64% |
| Thai Union Group Public Co., Ltd./Thai Union Seafood Co., Ltd./Pakfood Public Company Limited/Asia Pacific (Thailand) Co., Ltd./Chaophraya Cold Storage Co., Ltd./Okeanos Co., Ltd./Okeanos Food Co., Ltd./Takzin Samut Co., Ltd. | zero |
| Thai Royal Frozen Foods Co., Ltd. | 0.73% |
| Review Average Rate (applicable to 13 companies) | 0.73% |
Average rate. Commerce is not individually investigating 13 companies subject to this review and instead preliminarily assigned them an average rate using the rates calculated for the two mandatory respondents. See Appendix III in Commerce's notice for a full list of these 13 companies.
Assessment Rates
As part of this administrative review, Commerce will also calculate the AD it will assess on importers for entries of subject merchandise entered between Feb. 1, 2023, and Jan. 31, 2024. If these preliminary results are confirmed in the final results, entries of subject merchandise exported by Thai Royal will be assessed AD at importer-specific rates. Thai Union Group affiliated companies will have its exports liquidated without AD assessed. Importers of subject merchandise exported by Charoen and the other 13 companies under review will be assessed AD at the rate listed above.
(The period of review is 02/01/23 - 01/31/24. See the notice for additional information, including the scope of the order, potential cash deposit and assessment instructions, etc.)