Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced the final results of the agency’s twentieth (20th) administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from India.
The 20th administrative review determines antidumping duties owed on shrimp imported into the United States from India between February 1, 2024 and January 31, 2025. Commerce’s administrative review also establishes cash deposit rates required for future imports of Indian shrimp.
In its final results for the 20th administrative review, Commerce determined dumping margins of:
- 7.01% for Sandhya Aqua Exports Private Limited (Sandhya Aqua);
- 4.04% for the related companies Devi Fisheries Limited, Satya Seafoods Private Limited, Usha Seafoods, and Devi Aquatech Private Limited (Devi Fisheries); and
- 5.53% to the 106 other Indian shrimp exporters subject to the antidumping duty order (All Others).
These dumping margins were significantly higher than the amounts preliminarily announced by Commerce in May: 4.30% for Sandhya Aqua; 2.36% for Devi Fisheries; and 3.33% for All Others. The margins were also higher than those calculated earlier this year in the final results of the 19th administrative review: 5.08% for Sandhya Aqua; 2.71% for Devi Fisheries; and 3.76% for All Others.
During the relevant review period (February 1, 2024 through January 31, 2025), most Indian shrimp exporters were shipping to the United States with a 1.35% cash deposit rate.
For Sandhya Aqua, the final antidumping duty assessment rate determined by Commerce represents a fourfold increase over the estimated antidumping duties deposited on the company’s imports made between February 2024 and January 2025. In public filings to the federal agency, Sandhya Aqua estimated that it exported shrimp valued at around $190.4 million over that time period, meaning that importers of Sandhya Aqua’s shrimp confront an estimated total antidumping duty liability of $13.3 million and would owe roughly $10.8 million in additional duty amounts to the U.S. Treasury plus interest.
The group of companies related to Devi Fisheries Limited saw their antidumping duty rates more than double in the final results from their existing cash deposit rate of 1.35%. In public filings with Commerce, these companies estimated that they had exported shrimp valued at around $196.6 million over the review period (February 1, 2024 through January 31, 2025), meaning that their importers face a total estimated antidumping duty liability of $7.9 million and would owe roughly $5.3 million in additional duty amounts to the U.S. Treasury plus interest.
Public estimates of the value of shrimp imported from the other 106 Indian shrimp companies subject to the administrative review are not available. However, in total, the United States imported 649.9 million pounds of frozen, non-breaded warmwater shrimp from India in 2024 valued at $2.2 billion. Although some of these imports were not subject to antidumping duties due to an exemption for shipments from Devi Seafoods, if the value of shipments from Sandhya Aqua and Devi Fisheries are accounted for, the total potential antidumping duty liability for importers of shrimp from the other Indian shrimp exporters would be over $100 million.
“Indian exporters forced prices down in the U.S. market in 2024 by dumping shrimp to maintain their share of the market,” said Blake Price, Executive Director of the Southern Shrimp Alliance. “Under the regular operation of our trade remedy laws, there are severe consequences for this short-term decision making. While Commerce’s action cannot undo the harm caused to American fishermen by dumped shrimp, today’s announcement limits the Indian industry’s ability to cause further harm to our industry.”
Review the U.S. Department of Commerce’s pre-publication Federal Register notice regarding the final results of the twentieth administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from India (February 1, 2024 through January 31, 2025) here: https://shrimpalliance.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Pre-Pub-Fed-Reg-Notice-India-Shrimp-AD-AR20-Final-Results-1.pdf