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U.S. Proposes Tariffs on Shrimp Imports

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20040706_1306.html

July 6, 2004The Bush administration on Tuesday proposed tariffs on shrimp imports from China and Vietnam, finding that companies there were dumping
frozen and canned warm-water shrimp products into the United_States at artificially low prices.
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... U.S. Proposes Shrimp Tariffs for 4 Nations. 07.29.2004, 06:31 PM. The Bush administration proposed tariffs Thursday on shrimp imports from four of the largest shrimp-producing ...
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. The ruling, released in Washington, came three weeks after the Commerce Department
proposed tariffs on China and Vietnam.

In all, the six countries provide about 75 percent of the shrimp Americans eat.

The tariffs proposed Thursday varied according to each country's sales and production costs. Brazilian exporters faced the stiffest duties, at up to 68 percent.

The Southern shrimpers had sought duties ranging up to 349 percent for Brazil and between 57 percent and 166 percent for the three other countries
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31/07/2004 14:24:17

Countries protest U.S. shrimp policy

http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?contentid=2121

Proposed U.S. tariffs on imports from four of the world's largest shrimp-producing nations sparked protests Friday with Brazil, Ecuador, India and Thailand denying selling shellfish on the U.S. market at artificially low prices.



Itamar Rocha, president of the Brazilian Shrimp Farmers Association, also denied selling at artificially low prices.
"This is not dumping," Rocha said.
"What we have are good Brazilian entrepreneurs who identified a market and built businesses to supply the demand."
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