Domestic Shrimp Industry Hails Higher Tariff on Chinese Breaded Shrimp
The Southern Shrimp Alliance welcomes the hike to 25 percent on List 3 of the Section 301 tariffs, because, it notes, the 10 percent tariff only reduced imports of frozen breaded shrimp by 22 percent. The alliance said that there…
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was $115 million worth of Chinese breaded shrimp imported in the U.S. from October to February, and that's virtually the same volume of imports as in 2017. Nearly all other frozen shrimp is subject to substantial antidumping duties, the alliance said. But breaded shrimp "is not subject to antidumping dutiesand prior to September 24th, importers paid no duties on any breaded shrimp shipped from China."