CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
On Sept. 2, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Over one-third of retail-packaged frozen seafood products sampled by the FDA for short weighting failed to be compliant with net weight declaration on the product label, and those importers found violating compliance have been placed on an import alert, according to results from the agency released on Sept. 2.
The petitioner and a pair of respondents traded briefs at the Court of International Trade regarding various elements of the Commerce Department's countervailing duty investigation on frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador (Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila v. United States, CIT Consol. # 25-00025).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Aug. 25, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
On Aug. 25, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
In response to U.S. opposition (see 2507180057) to its motion for judgment (see 2501270012), exporter Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Co. said again that the Commerce Department’s use of Thailand as a surrogate for its countervailing duty review’s land rental prices calculation wasn’t relying on the best available evidence (Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Co. v. United States, CIT # 25-00030).
The Southern Shrimp Alliance, a trade group representing shrimp harvesters and shrimp processors in eight Southern states, observed that the FDA has notably increased entry-line refusals of imported Indonesian shrimp in 2025, according to an Aug. 18 post on its website.
The Indonesian Fishery Producers Processing and Marketing Association on Aug. 14 dismissed its case at the Court of International Trade on the International Trade Commission's affirmative injury finding on shrimp from Indonesia, Ecuador, India and Vietnam. The association brought the case to argue that the ITC erred in finding "significant underselling" was the basis on which to determine that the shrimp imports injured the U.S. domestic industry (see 2502270020) (Indonesia Fishery Producers Processing and Marketing Association v. United States, CIT # 25-00035).
The FDA has created an import alert to list companies found to be producing human food products that may have been contaminated chemically because of improper preparations or insanitary conditions.