SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On March 10, 2026, Commerce published in the Federal Register the Preliminary Results of this expedited administrative review.^[1] On July 21, 2026, Commerce extended the deadline for the final results of the expedited administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador.^[2] Accordingly the deadline for these final results is now July 31, 2026.

For a complete description of the events that occurred since the Preliminary Results, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.^[3] The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at access.trade.gov/​frnotices.

Scope of the Order

The merchandise covered by the Order is shrimp from Ecuador. For a full description of the scope of the order, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.

Analysis of Comments Received

All issues raised by the interested parties in their case and rebuttal briefs are addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. The topics discussed and the issues raised by parties to which we responded in the Issues and Decision Memorandum are listed in the appendix to this notice.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

Based on our analysis of comments received from interested parties, we made certain changes to the net countervailable subsidy rates calculated for Empacadora del Pacifico S.A. (Edpacif), Nirsa S.A. (Nirsa)/Procesadora Posorja S.A. (Proposorja), and Productos Perecibles y Mariscos S.A. (Propemar). For discussion of these changes, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.

Methodology

Commerce conducted this review in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(l). For each of the subsidy programs found to be countervailable, we find that there is a subsidy, i.e., a government-provided financial contribution that gives rise to a benefit to the recipient, and that the subsidy is specific. For a full description of the methodology underlying all of Commerce's conclusions, including our reliance, in part, on facts otherwise available, pursuant to sections 776(a) of the Act, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.

Final Results of Review

Commerce determines that the following net countervailable subsidy rates exist for the following producers/exporters for which this expedited review is being conducted for the period January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022:

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Disclosure

Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in connection with these final results of review to interested parties within five days after public announcement of the final results or, if there is no public announcement, withing five days of the date of publication of the notice of final results in the Federal Register , in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).

Cash Deposit Requirements

Pursuant to section 19 CFR 351.214(l)(3)(ii), the final results of this expedited review will not be the basis for the assessment of countervailing duties. Upon the issuance of these final results, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to collect cash deposits of estimated countervailing duties for the companies subject to this expedited review, at the rates shown above, on shipments of subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of the final results of this expedited review. These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.

Administrative Protective Order (APO)

This notice also serves as a final reminder to parties subject to an APO of their responsibility concerning the destruction of proprietary information disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely written notification of the return or destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial protective order, is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and terms of an APO is a violation subject to sanction.

Notification to Interested Parties

The final results are issued and published in accordance with sections 777(i)(1), 777A(e), and 782 of the Act, section 103(a)(2) of the URAA, and 19 CFR 351.214(l).

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum

I. Summary

II. Background

III. Scope of the Order

IV. Diversification of Ecuador's Economy

V. Subsidies Valuation

VI. Benchmarks

VII. Analysis of Programs

VIII. Discussion of the Issues

Comment 1: Whether To Terminate this Expedited Review

Comment 2: Whether To Correct the Section 771B Calculation for Edpacif's Cross-owned Affiliate in Connection With the Land-Use Concessions in Beaches and Bay Areas for Less Than Adequate Remuneration (LTAR) Program

Comment 3: Whether Commerce Inadvertently Erred When Applying Section 771B in Connection With Edpacif's Use of the Export Tax Incentive for Sustained/Increased Employment and Currency Outflow Tax (ISD) Exemption on Principal and Interest Payments on Foreign Loans Program

Comment 4: Whether Commerce Inadvertently Miscalculated Edpacif's Electricity for LTAR Subsidy Rate

Comment 5: Whether Commerce Inadvertently Did Not Include the Additional Deduction of 150 Percent of Remuneration and Social Benefits for Payments to Older Adults Program

Comment 6: Whether To Update Nirsa/Proposorja's Raw Shrimp Purchase Total

Comment 7: Whether To Revise the Benchmark for the Government Provision of Electricity for LTAR Program

Comment 8: Whether Commerce Sufficiently Investigated the Government of Ecuador's (GOE) Alleged Failure To Enforce Environmental and Labor Laws

Comment 9: Whether To Revise the Benchmark and Benefit Calculations Related to the Provision of Land Concessions Program

Comment 10: Whether To Calculate the Land Benchmark Price Based on the Weighted Average of the Benchmark Sources

Comment 11: Whether To Revise the Annualized Per-Hectare Land Rental Price Calculation Used in the Preliminary Results

Comment 12: Whether To Correct the Application and Methodology for Attributing Benefits to Unaffiliated Shrimp Farmers Pursuant to Section 771B

Comment 13: Whether To Exclude From the Order any Ecuadorean Respondent for Which It Calculates a Rate That Is Below De Minimis in the Final Results

Comment 14: Whether To Not Attribute Electricity Benefits Reported for Edpacif's Shrimp Processing Plant to Edpacif's Unaffiliated Suppliers of Raw Shrimp in its Calculations Pursuant to Section 771B

Comment 15: Whether To Attribute Benefits Reported by Propemar's Unaffiliated Raw Shrimp Suppliers as Subsidies to Frozen Shrimp Produced by Propemar

Comment 16: Whether To Attribute Propemar's Own Benefits to Its Non-Cross-Owned Suppliers of Raw Shrimp

Comment 17: Whether To Correct Errors in the Calculation of the Provision of Electricity for LTAR for Propemar

Comment 18: Whether To Correct Errors in the Calculation of the Provision of Land Use Concessions for Propemar

Comment 19: Whether To Calculate the Rate Attributed Pursuant to Section 771B Based on the Weighted Average Benefits Received by Multiple Suppliers of Raw Shrimp for the Same Program

VIII. Recommendation

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