Vietnamese Seafood Exporter Challenges U.S. Fish Fillet Duties

A Vietnamese exporter challenged the U.S. duty rate on certain imports of its frozen fish fillets, arguing to a federal trade court Wednesday that the Commerce Department impermissibly based its duty rate in part on that of another Vietnamese company which failed to cooperate with the department’s duty review.

The U.S. maintains antidumping duties on imports from Vietnam of certain kinds of frozen catfish fillets. The U.S. imported an estimated $338 million worth of subject fillets from Vietnam in 2019, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Commerce recently completed a periodic duty review covering subject fillets that entered the ...