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On April 7, 2015, the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Body issued its report in United States —Anti-dumping Measures on Certain Shrimp from Viet Nam rejecting Viet Nam’s claim that the Panel had acted inconsistently with the rules governing dispute settlement and upholding the Panel’s finding that Viet Nam had failed to establish its claim that a section of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act was inconsistent with articles of the Anti-Dumping Agreement. The Panel was established in 2013 to review Viet Nam’s complaint concerning “certain anti-dumping measures imposed by the United States in the context of the US anti-dumping proceedings in Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Shrimp), as well as with respect to certain US laws, and methodologies and practices of the US Department of Commerce (USDOC).” China, the European Union, Japan, Norway, and Thailand joined the appeal as third party participants.