On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced the final results of the agency’s nineteenth (19th) administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from India.
The 19th administrative review determines dumping margins for shrimp imported into the United States from India between February 1, 2023 and January 31, 2024. These dumping margins are used to calculate the final amount of antidumping duties owed on those imports. The dumping margins also establish cash deposit rates applied to future imports of Indian shrimp.
With the issuance of these final results, Commerce has (1) determined a dumping margin of 5.08 percent for Sandhya Aqua Exports Private Limited; (2) determined a dumping margin of 2.71 percent for the related companies Devi Fisheries Limited, Satya Seafoods Private Limited, Usha Seafoods, and Devi Aquatech Private Limited; and (3) assigned a dumping margin of 3.76 percent to the ninety-nine other Indian shrimp exporters subject to the antidumping duty order.
Prior to Commerce’s issuance of the final results in the 19th administrative review, most Indian shrimp exporters are shipping to the United States with a 1.35 percent cash deposit rate.
For Sandhya Aqua, the final antidumping duty assessment rate determined by Commerce represents a 275 percent increase over the estimated antidumping duties deposited on the company’s imports made between February 2023 and January 2024. In public filings to the federal agency, Sandhya Aqua estimated that it exported shrimp valued at around $160 million over that time period, meaning that importers of Sandhya Aqua’s shrimp confront a total antidumping duty liability of $8.1 million and would owe nearly $6 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 double in the final results from their existing cash deposit rate of 1.35 percent. In public filings with Commerce, these companies estimated that they had exported shrimp valued at around $201 million over the review period (February 1, 2023 through January 31, 2024), meaning that their importers face a total antidumping duty liability of $5.4 million and would owe roughly $2.7 million in additional duty amounts to the U.S. Treasury plus interest.
Public estimates of the value of shrimp imported from the other ninety-nine Indian shrimp companies subject to the administrative review are not available. However, in total, the United States imported 640.2 million pounds of frozen, non-breaded warmwater shrimp from India between February 1, 2023 through January 31, 2024 valued at $2.3 billion. Although a significant portion of these imports were likely not subject to antidumping duties, 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 approximately $70 million.
“Massive volumes of cheap, unfairly-traded Indian shrimp poured into the U.S. in 2023 and shut down this industry,” said Blake Price, deputy director of the Southern Shrimp Alliance. “While Commerce’s findings cannot undo the damage done to shrimpers and their families, the agency’s announcement yesterday should be a stinging reminder to importers of foreign shrimp that the bill eventually comes due.”
Review the U.S. Department of Commerce’s pre-publication Federal Register notice regarding the final results of the nineteenth administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from India (February 1, 2023 through January 31, 2024) here: https://shrimpalliance.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/India-AR19-Final-Results-Pre-Publication-Federal-Register-Notice.pdf