US revokes salmon anti-dumping duties

January 31, 2012
World Fishing & Aquaculture

The Norwegian Seafood Council has expressed its satisfaction with the US International Trade Commission’s decision to revoke the anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders against Norwegian Atlantic salmon.

NSC’s Director of Market Information, Egil Ove Sundheim, said, “It is gratifying to have these unnecessary trade barriers removed after more than 20 years. The Norwegian industry worked very hard to provide all of the information requested by the United States Government and we are very pleased that our information and arguments were fully considered.”

The US anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders against fresh and chilled Atlantic salmon from Norway covered whole fresh salmon, and were originally imposed in 1991. Removal of the prohibitive anti-dumping duty of nearly 24% is not considered a start of a significant increase in the exports of whole fresh and chilled salmon from Norway to the US.

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