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(VOVworld)- Vietnamese tra fish farmers, producers and exporters opposed the US Department of Commerce for levying higher taxes on tra frozen fillets imported from Vietnam. The new tax rates are 70 times higher than the previous ones. Trinh Ba Hoang, General Director of the Investment Commerce Fisheries Corporation, says : "Vietnamese exporters to the US are very worried about the anti-dumping duties because the costs have not been calculated yet".

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP) says the new tax level will cause Vietnamese enterprises a loss of millions of USD a year. The Association has issued a press release opposing the US Department of Commerce’s new calculations of tax rates imposed on Vietnamese tra fish imported to the US. Truong Dinh Hoe, Secretary General of VASEP, says: "The US Department of Commerce’s decision to impose anti-dumping duties on Vietnamese tra fish imported to the US is unreasonable. 6 months ago, the DOC, in its preliminary review concluded that Vietnam wasn’t dumping and used Bangladesh as a benchmark country for calculating anti-dumping margins on Vietnam’s frozen fish fillet exports. Now they are using Indonesia. Figures for the tra fishing industry in Indonesia are different from tra fish production and exports in Vietnam resulting in wider margins. This will cause a lot of difficulties for Vietnamese enterprises, many of whom can’t export fish with such high duties".

Mr. Hoe said that VASEP has directed enterprises subject to the tax to work with their lawyers to prepare legal briefs for a lawsuit in the International Court of Arbitration.