The association explained that the export price of Vietnam’s trafish products is low since Vietnamese businesses have built a series oflinkage chains from breeding, processing to shipping, resulting in costreduction.
The decision of the US Department ofCommerce (DOC) to choose Indonesia as the reference country tocalculate the anti-dumping tariffs is unfair as the breeding methods ofthe two countries are different.
The VTFA asked theDOC, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) and the US Congress toconsider the removal of the anti-dumping duties on Vietnamese tra andbasa fish.
On January 17, the DOC announced thefinal results of its 10th administrative review on tra fish filletsimported from Vietnam, in which the anti-dumping taxes Vietnamese firmshave to pay range from 0.97 USD to 2.39 USD per kilo for batches shippedbetween August 2012 and August 2013.-VNA