US antidumping duties on frozen warmwater shrimp (2004-2005)
2004–2005: a documented market event that overlapped the wholesale price windows of 3 tracked ingredients — co-occurrence in time, never an asserted cause.
What happened
On petitions filed December 31, 2003 by the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee (a coalition of US shrimp producers/harvesters), the US Department of Commerce initiated antidumping duty investigations in January 2004 into certain frozen and canned warmwater shrimp imported from Brazil, China, Ecuador, India, Thailand, and Vietnam. Following affirmative final determinations by Commerce and an affirmative injury finding by the US International Trade Commission, antidumping duty orders took effect on non-canned warmwater shrimp from all six countries in early 2005 (February 1, 2005); duty rates varied widely by country and company.
Documented account from our open, cited registry (sources below). Shown as context beside the price record — co-occurrence in time, never an asserted cause.
Affected ingredients
- Shrimp
- Shrimp Head On
- Shrimp Pd
Why these ingredients were exposed
Each affected ingredient's public supply structure — where it comes from and how much it leans on imports. Context that makes the co-occurrence with a documented event legible, never its cause.
- ShrimpWild vs imported US wild landings were $312M (2024), beside $1.62B of imports — two different measures, not a supply share. Most imports of this species are farmed abroad.
- Shrimp (head-on)Wild vs imported US wild landings were $312M (2024), beside $1.62B of imports — two different measures, not a supply share. Most imports of this species are farmed abroad.
- Shrimp (P&D)Wild vs imported US wild landings were $312M (2024), beside $3.32B of imports — two different measures, not a supply share. Most imports of this species are farmed abroad.
Wild landings and imports are two different measures, not a supply share. It explains why an ingredient sits in the path of a documented event — not that the event caused any price move. Co-occurrence in time, never a cause.
The detected moves that overlapped
Each figure is a wholesale reference against its own ±26-week normal — a market move, never a delivered price.
No sustained wholesale move in our detected set falls inside this event's window. The event is documented; our public price series simply didn't flag a notable departure from normal for these ingredients then — an honest absence, not a hidden one.
Sources
4 sources
- Notice of Initiation of Antidumping Duty Investigations: Certain Frozen and Canned Warmwater Shrimp From Brazil, Ecuador, India, Thailand, the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (69 FR 3876) — US Federal Register (Department of Commerce)
- Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador (Feb 1, 2005) — US Federal Register (Department of Commerce)
- Imports of Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp (Amended Final Determinations fact sheet, Feb 1, 2005) — US Department of Commerce, Enforcement & Compliance
- Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from China, Ecuador, India, Thailand and Vietnam (2013 five-year sunset review) — US International Trade Commission
Documented events come from our open, cited registry (CC‑BY). Price moves are detected from public history (USDA/BLS/FRED) and shown as co-occurring context, never asserted as the cause. How events are picked.