(VOV) – Vietnam has protested the US Department of Commerce anti-dumping tax levied on tra fish imported from Vietnam. Foreign Ministry spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi was addressing a press briefing in Hanoi on Thursday: “The decision is unfair and not objective. We have repeatedly said that Vietnamese companies do not dump tra fish and frozen fillets as well as other fisheries products in the US market and requested the US Department of Commerce not to impose anti-dumping tariff on tra fish and other fisheries imports from Vietnam. Trade relations between the two countries must be reviewed in a fair and objective manner in line with regulations by the World Trade Organization, the spirit of trade liberalization, the fine relationship between the two countries and mutual interest of both Vietnamese and US businesses and consumers.”

Vietnam has enough evidence to prove the US decision to impose anti-dumping tariffs on Vietnam’s tra fish fillets is unreasonable. Source: VOV

Vietnam has enough evidence to prove the US decision to impose  anti-dumping tariffs on Vietnam’s tra fish fillets is unreasonable. Pham Minh Tuan, Deputy Head of the General Department of Aquaculture under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, said in an interview with VOV about the US Department of Commerce’s determination to levy 100 percent duties on tra fish fillets imported from Vietnam. Tuan said the decision is unreasonable and using Indonesia as a bench mark is not persuasive: "Firstly, Indonesia has an economy which is quite different from ours. Secondly, the statistics the DOC has on Indonesia do not reflect Indonesia’s entire seafood processing industry. Thirdly, Indonesia’s pangasisus fish is different from that in Vietnam. Those factors prove that the decision is unreasonable".

Mr. Tuan said Vietnam’s aquaculture sector is planning to provide statistics and consider filing a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade against the DOC’s decision.