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WTO Panel Rules U.S. Anti-Dumping Regulations on Vietnamese Shrimp Violate Trade Agreements (November 17, 2014) [1]

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International Law in Brief [2]
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Marina Barakatt

On November 17, 2014, a WTO Panel (the Panel) ruled [3] that the U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC) had instituted anti-dumping regulations on certain Vietnamese frozen warmwater shrimp that are inconsistent with several articles of the Anti-Dumping Agreement [4] (the Agreement).  According to the official summary [5], while the Panel found “Viet Nam had not established that there existed a USDOC practice amounting to a rule or norm of general and prospective application with respect to the manner in which the NME-wide entity rate is calculated,” it did find “the rate applied [by USDOC] to the Viet Nam-wide entity and its constituent companies in the administrative reviews at issue was inconsistent with Article 9.4 [anti-dumping duty applied to imports from exporters].”  The Panel recommended that the United States bring its actions in compliance with the Agreement.


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[1] https://www.asil.org/blogs/wto-panel-rules-us-anti-dumping-regulations-vietnamese-shrimp-violate-trade-agreements
[2] https://www.asil.org/blog-name/international-law-brief
[3] https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/FE_Search/FE_S_S009-DP.aspx?language=E&CatalogueIdList=128672,128671&CurrentCatalogueIdIndex=0&FullTextSearch=
[4] http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/19-adp_01_e.htm
[5] http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds429_e.htm#bkmk429r