On April 1, 2014, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) issued the press release on the final results of the Ninth Administrative Reviews (POR9) on Vietnam pangasius by the US Department of Commerce (DOC).
According to VASEP, on March 31, 2014, DOC issued the final results of the ninth antidumping duty administrative reviews on certain frozen pangasius fillets imported from Vietnam. The period of review (POR) is August 1, 2011 through July 31, 2012.
In the final decision, DOC imposes an antidumping duty of US$0.03 per kilogram and US$1.20 per kilogram to two mandatory respondents – Vinh Hoan Corporation and Hung Vuong Corporation. Other separate rate respondents have to pay US$0.42 per kilogram. Vietnam-wide rate is US$2.11 per kilogram.
This decision showed that DOC insisted on selecting Indonesia to be the primary surrogate country for its calculations of the weighted-average dumping margins for Vietnamese pangasius products despite a strong claim of Vietnamese pangasius processors and exporters because Indonesia is not economically comparable to Vietnam.
The final results of POR9 reflects that DOC has been inconsistently tightening the selection of primary surrogate country and its calculations of anti-dumping duties on Vietnamese frozen pangasius fillets in recent period of reviews. This move is clearly a protectionist manner which has caused obstacles to Vietnamese pangasius exporters.
According to VASEP, the real facts show that imports of pangasius from Vietnam into the US market have not had harmful impacts on the US catfish industry, but it creates jobs for those who engaged in sales of Vietnamese pangasius products and provides a stable source of white-meat fish with good quality and reasonable price to US consumers.
Thus, VASEP calls for a serious consideration by DOC in its inspections and calculations of anti-dumping duty in administrative reviews in the respect of American consumers’ benefit, the livelihood of millions of Vietnamese people, who are depending on the pangasius industry in Mekong Delta, as well as commercial relations between the two countries.
Le Hien
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