Shrimp processing. (Photo: VASEP)
WTO issues final ruling on shrimp anti-dumping measures
VIET NAM
Friday, November 21, 2014, 04:00 (GMT + 9)
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has announced a panel belonging to this entity's final decision on Vietnam’s lawsuit against the US imposition of anti-dumping tax on certain warm-water frozen shrimp.
The panel had been created in response to Vietnamese authorities’ request and approved by the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body, reported VNS.
The panel considered 11 contents in Vietnam’s claims and issued rulings on seven of them which are considered conducive to the Vietnamese side, especially in administrative proceedings and dumping margins.
Vietnam’s complaint had been made in early 2012, when consultations with the United States concerning a number of anti-dumping measures on certain frozen warm water shrimp from Vietnam were requested.
In addition to two administrative reviews and the five year “sunset review”, the request for consultations concerns several US laws, regulations, administrative proceedings and practices, including zeroing, which Vietnam considers are inconsistent with the United States' obligations.
At the beginning of 2013, Vietnam requested the creation of the panel, which reviewed the case and found that certain of the measures challenged by Vietnam are inconsistent with the GATT 1994 and the Anti-Dumping Agreement, and recommended that the US bring the relevant measures into conformity with its obligations under these Agreements.
In connection to Vietnam's claim concerning zeroing in administrative reviews, the panel found that Vietnam had failed to establish the existence of the alleged measure as a rule or norm of general and prospective application and thus, rejected it.
All in all, Vietnamese authorities have asked the US side to abide by the panel’s ruling and revise laws on the calculation of anti-dumping margins.
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