Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From India: Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, In Part; 2025-2026
On March 31, 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp (shrimp) f...
Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY:
On March 31, 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp (shrimp) from India for the period of review (POR) February 1, 2025, through January 31, 2026, for 393 companies. We are rescinding this administrative review with respect to certain companies because they had no reviewable entries of subject merchandise during the POR. For a list of the companies for which we are rescinding this review in the absence of suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR,
see
Appendix I to this notice. For a list of the companies for which the review is continuing,
see
Appendix II to this notice.
DATES:
Applicable September 28, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anastasiia Frizner, AD/CVD Operations, Office IX, Enforcement and Compliance,
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International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0145.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On February 2, 2026, Commerce published in the
Federal Register
a notice of opportunity to request an administrative review of the AD order on shrimp from India for the POR February 1, 2025, through January 31, 2026.[1]
In February and March 2026, Commerce received timely requests, in accordance with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), to conduct an administrative review of the
Order
from the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee (the petitioner),[2]
the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA),[3]
the American Shrimp Association (ASA),[4]
the U.S. Shrimpers Coalition (USSC),[5]
and certain individual companies.[6]
Based upon these requests, on March 31, 2026, in accordance with section 751(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), Commerce published a notice of initiation in the
Federal Register
covering 394 companies for which Commerce received timely requests for review.[7]
On April 1, 2026, Commerce issued data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regarding the POR entries of shrimp from India.[8]
In June 2025, interested parties timely withdrew their requests for an administrative review of certain companies.[9]
However, because there are review requests remaining for each of these companies, these companies remain under administrative review.
Partial Rescission
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), Commerce's practice is to rescind an administrative review of an AD order where it concludes that there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR.[10]
Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the antidumping duty assessment rate for the review period.[11]
Therefore, for an administrative review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable, suspended entry that Commerce can instruct CBP to liquidate at the calculated antidumping duty assessment rate for the review period.[12]
Commerce notified all interested parties of its intent to rescind the instant review regarding the companies listed in Appendix I because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise from these companies during the POR and invited interested parties to comment.[13]
We received comments from Sprint Exports Private Limited (Sprint), which argued that Commerce should not rescind the review for it because it had entries during the POR.[14]
After further review of the CBP data, we note that we are not rescinding the review of Sprint because this company appears in the CBP data.[15]
We also received comments from Aadhya Sea Foods Private Limited (Aadhya), which argued that we should not rescind the review for it because it had a POR shipment of the subject merchandise and provided documentation to support this claim.[16]
Subsequently, Commerce placed information from CBP regarding the entry in question on the record.[17]
Consistent with our practice, in the absence of any suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR for the companies listed in Appendix I (including Aadhya), we are rescinding this administrative review for these companies, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
Assessment
For the companies for which this review is being rescinded, in part, Commerce will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. Antidumping duties shall be assessed at rates equal to the cash deposit of estimated antidumping duties required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce intends to issue appropriate assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days after publication of this notice in the
Federal Register
.
Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a reminder to importers of their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply with this requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that reimbursement of antidumping duties
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occurred and the subsequent assessment of doubled antidumping duties.
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305. Timely written notification of the return/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 which is subject to sanction.
Notification to Interested Parties
This notice is issued and published in accordance with section 751(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4).
Dated: September 23, 2026.
Scot Fullerton,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations.
1.
See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List,91 FR 4500 (February 2, 2026);
see also Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from India,70 FR 5147 (February 1, 2005) (
Order).
6.
See
the Indian Producers and Exporters' Letter, “Request for Antidumping Duty Administrative Review covering the Period from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026,” dated February 25, 2026;
see also
Megaa Moda Pvt. Ltd.'s (Megaa Moda's) Letter, “Request for Administrative Review of Megaa Moda Pvt. Ltd. for the POR February 01, 2025 to January 31, 2026,” dated February 27, 2026; and Snow World Marine Exports Private Limited's (Snow World's) Letter, “Snow World Request for Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from India for POR 2025-2026,” dated February 27, 2026.
7.
See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,91 FR 15951 (March 31, 2026) (
Initiation Notice). We note that, in this notice, we are combining two companies listed separately in the
Initiation Notice, i.e.,
Vasista Marine and Vasista Marine Private Limited.
9.
See
Megaa Moda's Letter, “Withdrawal of Request for Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Frozen Warm-water Shrimp from India (A-533-840) for period of February 01, 2025 to January 31, 2025,” dated June 29, 2026;
see also
Snow World's Letter, “Withdrawal of Request for Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Frozen Warm-water Shrimp from India (A-533-840) for period of February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026,” dated June 29, 2026.
10.
See, e.g., Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to Length Plate from the Federal Republic of Germany: Recission of Antidumping Administrative Review; 2020-2021,88 FR 4154 (January 24, 2023).
12.
See, e.g., Shanghai Sunbeauty Trading Co.
v.
United States,
380 F.Supp.3d 1328, 1336-37 (CIT 2019), at 12 (referring to section 751(a) of the Act, the CIT held: “While the statute does not explicitly require that an entry be suspended as a prerequisite for establishing entitlement to a review, it does explicitly state the determined rate will be used as the liquidation rate for the reviewed entries. This result can only obtain if the liquidation of entries has been suspended”;
see also Certain Frozen Fish Fillets from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final Determination of No Shipments; 2018-2019,86 FR 36102, and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 4; and
Solid Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate from the Russian Federation: Notice of Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,77 FR 65532 (October 29, 2012) (noting that “for an administrative review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable, suspended entry to be liquidated at the newly calculated assessment rate”).
19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i)