Thailand Shrimp: Prelim Results of AD Admin Review
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand (A-549-822). The agency calculated preliminary AD rates for two companies, and preliminarily assigned an average of those two rates to 157 other companies. It also found 13 companies had no shipments to the U.S. during the period of review, and preliminarily decided that subject merchandise from those companies will continue to enter at AD rates set in previous reviews.
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Rates Only Preliminary; Cash Deposit Rates From Previous Proceedings Still in Effect
These preliminary results are only preliminary, and are not in effect. Commerce may still change its calculations when it issues the final results of this administrative review. For now, the most recent final AD rate calculated for each Thai company is still applicable. If no final AD duty rate has ever been calculated for a company, then it is subject to the all others rate of 5.34%. The final results of this administrative review are currently due in July.
Cash Deposit Requirements
Once Commerce issues its final results, new AD duty cash deposit requirements may take effect for some companies, beginning on the date of publication of the final results in the Federal Register. The two individually-reviewed companies, Thai Union and Pakfood, merged during the period under review, so Commerce has preliminarily decided to assign them a single AD duty cash rate, as follows:
| Exporter | AD Rate |
|---|---|
| Thai Union Frozen Products Public Co., Ltd. / Thai Union Seafood Co., Ltd. / Pakfood Public Company Limited / Okeanos Food Co., Ltd./ Okeanos Co. Ltd. / Asia Pacific (Thailand) Co., Ltd., / Chaophraya Cold Storage Co. Ltd. / Takzin Samut Co. Ltd. | 1.1% |
| Average rate for 157 companies | 1.1% |
Review average rate. Commerce preliminarily assigned the 1.1 % AD duty rate it calculated for Thai Union and Pakfood to 157 other companies. See Commerce's notice for the full list.
No shipments. Commerce said 13 exporters certified that they made no shipments to the U.S. of subject merchandise during the period of review. As such, Commerce preliminarily decided not to calculate a new AD duty rate for these companies:
Assessment Rates
As part of this administrative review, Commerce will also calculate the AD duties it will assess on importers for entries of subject merchandise entered between Feb. 1, 2012 and Jan. 31, 2013. Thai Union and Pakfood merged during the review, so Commerce has preliminary decided to assess AD duties differently on entries before and after the merger. For Pakfood entries before the merger between Feb. 1, 2012 through April 22, 2012, Commerce intends to calculate importer-specific AD duty assessments for each importer based on entry data. The same goes for entries exported by the two companies after they merged for entries between April 23, 2012 and Jan. 31, 2013. But for entries from Thai Union between Feb. 1 and April 22, 2012, Commerce said it doesn't intend to assess AD Duties.
(The period of review is 02/01/12 -- 01/31/13. See notice for additional information, including the scope of the order, potential cash deposit and assessment instructions, etc.)
AD/CVD Operations contact -- Dennis McClure (202) 482-5973
(Federal Register 03/24/14)