VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has proposed the government to set catfish farming quotas, which it believes would help save the catfish industry.

Vietnamese seafood exporters have got off the hook after the US DOC dropped the 4.7 percent anti-dumping tax on Vietnam’s shrimp. It has also won the CVD lawsuit. The “brace” is believed to pave the way for more shrimp exports to the US market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Massive Chinese buy-ups of pre-processed shrimp for export and processing at home have left the processing and export market in disarray.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Catfish farmers in the Mekong Delta still incur losses, even though they are supported by the market factors.

VietNamNet Bridge – The US Department of Commerce has dropped a 4.7 per cent anti-dumping tax on Vietnamese shrimps. The tax had been in place since 2004. The new zero rate will be applied for two years until a new review is made.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has voiced its objection to the anti-dumping tax rates on imported Vietnamese tra fish imposed

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While Vietnam has successfully handled with the shrimp EMS (early mortality syndrome), the epidemic has been spread out in many countries, including Thailand. This could be the golden opportunity for Vietnam to become the biggest shrimp exporter.

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VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (Vasep) plans to build a center in Europe charged with distributing and auctioning Vietnamese tra fish products for the EU market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A series of big seafood companies in the west of the southern region, which are the biggest seafood exporters in Vietnam, have one after another, fallen into tragic situation.

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VietNamNet Bridge – Experts from the US Department of Commerce are conducting a fact-finding tour of Vietnam’s major shrimp producers and processors to examine the local shrimp farming and processing industry.

No perfect solution has been found to reduce the number of refused seafood exports. Meanwhile, enterprises have to spend more money for temporary solutions.

There were the “billionaires’ islets” in Mekong Delta, where farmers got rich with their catfish farming.

The US Department of Commerce's final rule on the fish fillets anti-dumping issue is an unlawful and politically motivated decision to levy punitive duty rates on Vietnamese fish exporters in excess of 100 per cent.

The recent decision of the US Department of Commerce (DOC) to choose Indonesia as the sole benchmark country to calculate the anti-dumping rate on frozen tra fish fillets imported from Viet Nam is not fair and objective.

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The Directorate of Fisheries of Vietnam (D-Fish) is considering suing the US Department of Commerce in a US federal court for its unfair calculation of anti-dumping margins on Vietnamese frozen fish fillets.