Domestic Shrimp Group Supports CBP's Proposed Ruling Change on Shrimp Country-of-Origin Marking
The Southern Shrimp Alliance offered its support for a CBP proposed modification to a ruling involving country of origin marking for cooked shrimp, in June 27 comments to the agency. The group said in a news release that CBP's proposal…
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(see 1906040020) would rectify a ruling that was "inconsistent with over three decades of previous CBP ruling letters finding that the peeling, cooking, and other minor processing of shrimp in a third country did not constitute a substantial transformation and did not change the country-of-origin of the shrimp from where it had been harvested." The SSA said it also used the comments to "reinforce the importance of consistent determinations of country of origin for marking purposes of cooked and processed shrimp."