EU anti-dumping tariff hits salmon

EU - The EU Commission wants to place an average 16 percent anti-dumping tariff on Norwegian salmon. The tariff would reportedly cost Norwegian seafood producers more than NOK 1.3 billion (USD 210 million) a year.

The new tariff could be imposed as early as May, to prevent Norwegian salmon producers from selling their fish in the EU market at prices so low that other European producers can't compete.

A 16 percent punitive tariff, or customs duty, would mean that a fish farmer selling salmon to a buyer within the European Union at NOK 24 per kilo would get only NOK 20, according to newspaper Bergens Tidende.

Lisbeth Berg-Hansen of the salmon producers' trade association FHL-Havbruk is upset over the EU claims that Norway dumps its salmon on the European market. "They're mixing numbers to suit themselves," she said. "Many producers won't be able to tolerate a tariff like this."

Berg-Hansen wants Norway to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization. Seafood producer Ole Eirik Lerøy says the battle isn't over yet, while Per Dag Iversen of FHL doubts the EU can produce evidence of dumping.

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Source: Aftenposte

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