Ecuador shrimp duty waiver gives India hope

The decision came in the wake of a World Trade Organization order to reconsider the duty rates as the method of calculating, widely known as zeroing, was in violation of WTO norms. The final ruling is expected by August 20.

The decision has provided a ray of hope to the Indian shrimp export industry as India’s case is under the consideration of a WTO expert panel.

Moreover, the second administrative review on anti-dumping duty is currently on.

In the first administrative review, DoC had raised the weighted average duty from 10.17 per cent to 10.54 per cent on a preliminary basis and also fixed a punitive rate of 82.30 per cent for 17 exporters who had not responded to the review. The final rates according to the first review will be announced by August.

Meanwhile, exporters have raised serious reservations about the approach of the Indian government, especially Department of Commerce, as they had not taken up the zeroing issue with the US DoC.

Even though India had lodged a complaint with the WTO on June 6, 2006, it had not followed Ecuador’s strategy of raising violations on zeroing principles and only argued against the customs bonding.

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Source: Business Standard

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