The International Trade Commission has renewed the antidumping tariff on frozen Chinese crawfish meat into 2017 — expected but good news after a bad crawfish season.
The tariff was first imposed in September 1997, after the Commerce Department found that U.S. producers were being hurt by Chinese crawfish tail meat dumped on the market at considerably less than market value. The tariff would expire after five years without ITC renewal; this is the third such renewal.
“It’s a good thing. I wish it were ten times as much,” said Stephen Minvielle, who farms 80 acres of crawfish and is director of the Louisiana Crawfish Research and Promotion Board. He said earlier this week that he’d expected the renewal. “It was pretty much a no-brainer.”
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