Vietnam Brings its Second WTO Complaint against US on Frozen Warm-Water Shrimp

In other dispute-related news, Vietnam brought the second dispute ever in its history as a WTO member (DS429).

The formal request for consultations concerns antidumping duties imposed by the United States on certain Vietnamese imports of frozen warm-water shrimp. It is a direct follow-up to Hanoi’s first complaint last year about Washington’s use of zeroing in calculating anti-dumping duties on similar shrimp imports (DS404).

The two countries will now have 60 days to resolve their differences through consultation before Vietnam can ask the DSB to establish a panel to hear the case. Further information on the dispute will be made available soon.

Vietnam is treated as a non-market economy by the US, a classification that makes it easier for trade partners to impose anti-dumping duties under WTO rules.