In 2005, The international trade center has used the tax against dumping with exporting shrimps from India, China, Thailand, Vietnam and Brazil because these countries have sold shrimps with the price lower than the price of producing.

Examining will have been foreseen to carry out on February next year. The federal authorities will listen to the ideas of evaluating the results achieved from applying tax against dumping in supporting fishermen as well as in competing with imported products.

According to Louisiana Shrimp Task Force, five countries have occupied 75% the total import shrimps to the USA before applying tax against dumping. After two years of applying this tax, this figure has reduced 18%.

According to Bobby Samanie, the president of the committee of fishing and wild animal of Louisiana, this committee will not expose any activities up to January 2010. With the direct experience on shrimps, Samanie has said that this state will prepare for the fight of international politic on seafood’s commerce. “I hope that someone else will find this solution”

Meanwhile, according to David Veal, the managing director The America Shrimps Processing Association, the tax against dumping with imported shrimps has been “the legal important tool” to help the processors and fishermen exploit shrimps to avoid important losses from imported products with the big quantity on the moment of inland demand has been low. Mr Veal has affirmed that The America Shrimps Processing Association will not support every effort on recovering on or many demands for applying the tax against dumping.

According Mr Veal, the most important reason making fishermen and many factories of processing inland shrimps loss the trust on the request of applying this tax has been the problem which has not been enough money to pay for tax of the suppliers on recent years. “There have been some cases of parrying to pay for tax, especially China”. Up to 2008, there have more than 42 million USD the tax which has not been paid, among them there have 38 million from China.(

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Translated by Vietfish Community