Notice2026-08633
Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From India: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
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May 4, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that producers and/or exporters subject to this review made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), February 1, 2024, through January 31, 2025. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 85 (Monday, May 4, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23961-23964]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-08633]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-533-840]
Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From India: Preliminary Results
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily
determines that producers and/or exporters subject to this review made
sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the
period of review (POR), February 1, 2024, through January 31, 2025.
Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results
of review.
DATES: Applicable May 4, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anne Entz, AD/CVD Operations, Office
IX, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3845.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On March 28, 2025, based on timely requests for review, in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), we initiated an administrative
review of the antidumping duty order on shrimp from India.\1\
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\1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 90 FR 14081 (March 28, 2025) (Initiation
Notice); and Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 90 FR 17568 (April 28, 2025) (where Commerce
added two companies under review that were omitted from the
Initiation Notice, and corrected the name for a third company). See
also Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Frozen Warmwater
Shrimp from India, 70 FR 5147 (February 1, 2005) (Order).
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Due to the lapse in appropriations and Federal Government shutdown,
on November 14, 2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative
proceedings by 47 days.\2\ Additionally, due to a backlog of documents
that were electronically filed via Enforcement and Compliance's
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service
System (ACCESS) during the Federal Government shutdown, on November 24,
2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative proceedings by an
additional 21 days.\3\ On December 17, 2025, Commerce extended the
deadline for the preliminary results of this review until Apri 7,
2026.\4\
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\2\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
\3\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of 2024-2025 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated
December 17, 2025.
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On March 20, 2026, Commerce further extended the deadline for the
preliminary results of this review to no later than April 28, 2026.\5\
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\5\ See Memorandum, ``Second Extension of Deadline for
Preliminary Results of 2024-2025 Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review,'' dated March 20, 2026.
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For a complete description of the events that followed the
initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\6\
A list of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
is attached as Appendix I to this notice. The Preliminary Decision
Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically via
ACCESS. ACCESS is available to registered users at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>. In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/frnotices">https://access.trade.gov/frnotices</a>.
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\6\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order
on Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from India; 2024-2025,'' dated
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary
Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the Order is shrimp from India. For a
complete description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum.
Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section
751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Export price
and constructed export price are calculated in accordance with section
772 of the Act. NV is calculated in accordance with section 773 of the
Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying our
conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Rate for Non-Individually Examined Companies
The Act and Commerce's regulations do not address the establishment
of a weighted-average dumping margin to be applied to companies not
selected for individual examination when Commerce limits its
examination in an administrative review pursuant to section 777A(c)(2)
of the Act. Generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of the Act,
which provides instructions for calculating the all-others rate in a
less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation, for guidance when
calculating the weighted-average dumping margin for companies which
were not selected for individual examination in an administrative
review.
Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others rate is
normally an amount equal to the weighted average of the estimated
weighted-average dumping margins established for exporters and
producers individually investigated, excluding any rates that are zero,
de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), or determined entirely on the
basis of facts available.
In this administrative review, we preliminarily calculated the
weighted-average dumping margins for Devi Fisheries Limited, Satya
Seafoods Private Limited, Usha Seafoods, and Devi Aquatech Private
Limited (collectively, the Devi Group) and Sandhya Aqua Exports Private
Limited (Sandhya), that are not zero, de minimis, or based entirely on
facts available. Accordingly, we are preliminarily assigning to the
companies under review that were not selected for individual
examination a simple average of the estimated dumping margins
calculated for the Devi Group and Sandhya, consistent with the guidance
in section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act.\7\
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\7\ With two respondents under examination, Commerce normally
calculates: (A) a weighted-average of the dumping margins calculated
for the examined respondents; (B) a simple average of the dumping
margins calculated for the examined respondents; and (C) a weighted-
average of the dumping margins calculated for the examined
respondents using each company's publicly ranged U.S. sale
quantities for the merchandise under consideration. Commerce then
compares (B) and (C) to (A) and selects the rate closest to (A) as
the most appropriate rate for all other producers and exporters.
See, e.g., Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof from France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom: Final Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Reviews, Final Results of Changed-Circumstances
Review, and Revocation of an Order in Part, 75 FR 53661, 53663
(September 1, 2010). See also Memorandum, ``Calculation of the Cash
Deposit Rate for Non-Reviewed Companies for the Preliminary Results
in the 2024-2025 Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order
on Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from India,'' dated concurrently with
this notice.
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Preliminary Results of Review
As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine that the
following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the
period February 1, 2024, through January 31, 2025:
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\8\ The exporters or producers not selected for individual
examination are listed in Appendix II.
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Weighted-
average
Producer or exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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Devi Fisheries Limited; Satya Seafoods Private Limited; Usha 2.36
Seafoods; Devi Aquatech Private Limited....................
Sandhya Aqua Exports Private Limited........................ 4.30
Companies Not Selected for Individual Review \8\............ 3.33
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Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose its calculations and analysis
performed to interested parties for these preliminary results within
five days of any public announcement or, if there is no public
announcement, within five days of the date of publication of this
notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Public Comment
Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. Pursuant to 19 CFR
351.309(c)(1)(ii), we have modified the deadline for interested parties
to submit case briefs to Commerce to not later than 21 days after the
date of the publication of this notice.\9\ Rebuttal briefs, limited to
issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed no later than five days
after the date for filing case briefs.\10\ Interested parties who
submit case or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding must submit: (1) a
table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of
authorities.\11\ All briefs must be filed electronically using ACCESS.
An electronically filed document must be received successfully in its
entirety in ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the established
deadline.
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\9\ See 19 CFR 351.309.
\10\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Administrative Protective
Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29,
2023) (APO and Service Final Rule).
\11\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2)(iii) and (d)(2)(iii), we
request that interested parties provide at the beginning of their
briefs a public, executive summary for each issue raised in their
briefs.\12\ Further, we request that interested parties limit their
public executive summary of each issue to no more than 450 words, not
including citations. We intend to use the public executive summaries as
the basis of the comment summaries included in the issues and decision
memorandum that will accompany the final determination in this review.
We request that interested parties include footnotes for relevant
citations in the public executive summary of each issue. Note that
Commerce has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the
service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).\13\
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\12\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\13\ See APO and Service Final Rule.
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to
request a hearing must submit a written request to the Assistant
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, filed electronically via
ACCESS, by 5 p.m. Eastern time, within 30 days after the date of
publication of this notice. Requests should contain: (1) the party's
name, address, and
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telephone number; (2) the number of participants and whether any
participant is a foreign national; and (3) a list of issues to be
discussed. Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to those raised
in the respective case briefs. If a request for a hearing is made,
Commerce will inform interested parties of the scheduled date for the
hearing.\14\
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Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1), Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate
entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of
this review.
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), because both the Devi Group and
Sandhya reported the entered value for all of their U.S. sales, we
calculated importer-specific ad valorem duty assessment rates based on
the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for each importer's
examined sales to the total entered value of these sales. Where either
the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is zero or de minimis
within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), or an importer-specific
rate is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the
appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.
Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice will apply to entries
of subject merchandise during the POR produced by the Devi Group or
Sandhya for which the reviewed companies did not know that the
merchandise they sold to an intermediary (e.g., a reseller, trading
company, or exporter) was destined for the United States. In such
instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at the
all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies)
involved in the transaction.\15\
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\15\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties,
68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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For the companies listed in Appendix II which were not selected for
individual review, we will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on
all appropriate entries at the review-specific average rate, calculated
as noted in the ``Rate for Non-Individually Examined Companies''
section, above. The final results of this review shall be the basis for
the assessment of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered
by the final results of this review and for future deposits of
estimated duties, where applicable.\16\
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Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier
than 35 days after the date of publication of the final results of this
review in the Federal Register. If a timely summons is filed at the
U.S. Court of International Trade, the assessment instructions will
direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties
to file a request for a statutory injunction has expired (i.e., within
90 days of publication).
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following deposit requirements will be effective for all
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for the companies
listed above will be that established in the final results of this
review, except if the rate is less than 0.50 percent and, therefore, de
minimis within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), in which case the
cash deposit rate will be zero; (2) for previously investigated or
reviewed companies not covered in this review, the cash deposit rate
will continue to be the company-specific cash deposit rate published
for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding in which the
company participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this
review, or the LTFV investigation, but the manufacturer is, then the
cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recent
segment for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash
deposit rate for all other manufacturers or exporters will continue to
be 10.17 percent, the all-others rate established in the LTFV
investigation.\17\ These deposit requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
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Final Results of Review
Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final
results of this administrative review, including the results of its
analysis of the issues raised in any written briefs, no later than 120
days after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal
Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.213(h)(1), unless otherwise extended.
Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) to file a certificate regarding
the reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties prior to
liquidation of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure
to comply with this requirement could result in Commerce's presumption
that reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties occurred
and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties, and/or an
increase in the amount of antidumping duties by the amount of the
countervailing duties.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results in
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.213(h) and 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: April 28, 2026.
Christopher Abbott,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the
non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix I
List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of the Methodology
V. Reccomendation
Appendix II
Companies Not Selected for Individual Examination
1. Accelerated Freeze Drying Co., Ltd.
2. Akshay Food Impex Private Limited
3. Alashore Marine Exports (P) Ltd.
4. Albys Agro Private Limited
5. Alpha Marine
6. Alpha Marine Limited
7. Ananda Aqua Applications; Ananda Aqua Exports (P) Limited; Ananda
Foods
8. Ananda Enterprises (India) Private Limited
9. Apex Frozen Foods Limited
10. Aquatica Frozen Foods Global Pvt. Ltd.
11. Arya Sea Foods Private Limited
12. Asvini Fisheries Ltd.; Asvini Fisheries Private Ltd.
13. Avanti Frozen Foods Private Limited
14. Bhatsons Aquatic Products
15. Bhimraj Exports Private Limited
16. Blue-Fin Frozen Foods Pvt Ltd.
17. BMR Exports; BMR Exports Private Limited
18. BMR Industries Private Limited
19. B-One Business House Pvt. Ltd.
20. BRC Marine Products
21. Calcutta Seafoods Pvt. Ltd.; Bay Seafood Pvt. Ltd.; Elque
Ventures Private Limited
22. Canaan Marine Products
23. Castlerock Fisheries Ltd
24. Choice Trading Corporation Pvt. Ltd.
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25. Coastal Aqua Private Limited
26. Coastal Corporation Ltd.
27. Cofoods Processors Private Limited
28. Deepak Nexgen Foods Pvt. Ltd.
29. Diamond Seafoods Exports; Edhayam Frozen Foods Pvt. Ltd.;
Kadalkanny Frozen Foods; Theva & Company
30. DN Sea Shells Private Limited
31. Dwaraka Sea Foods
32. Falcon Marine Exports Limited; KR Enterprises
33. Fedora Sea Foods Private Limited
34. Geo Seafoods
35. Ghan Marine Products
36. Godavari Mega Aqua Food Park Private Limited
37. Green Asia Impex Private Limited
38. Growel Processors Private Limited
39. Hari Marine Private Limited
40. Highland Agro Food Private Limited
41. Hyson Exports Private Limited
42. IFB Agro Industries Ltd.
43. ITC Ltd.
44. Jagadeesh Marine Exports
45. Jaya Lakshmi Sea Foods Pvt. Ltd.
46. Kader Exports Private Limited
47. Kalyan Aqua & Marine Exp. India Pvt. Ltd.
48. Kay Kay Exports; Kay Kay Foods
49. KNC Agro Limited; KNC AGRO PVT. LTD.
50. LNSK Greenhouse Agro Products LLP
51. Magnum Sea Foods Limited; Magnum Estates Limited; Magnum Estates
Private; MagnumEstates Private Limited
52. Mangala Marine Exim India Pvt. Ltd.
53. Mangala Seafoods; Mangala Sea Foods
54. Maritime Aqua Exportz
55. Megaa Moda Pvt. Ltd.
56. Mekworld Marines and Exports Private Limited
57. Milesh Marine Exports Private Limited
58. Milsha Agro Exports Pvt. Ltd.
59. Mindhola Foods LLP
60. MMC Exports Limited
61. Monsun Foods Pvt. Ltd.
62. Mourya Aquex Pvt. Ltd.
63. Munnangi Seafoods (Pvt) Ltd.
64. N.K. Marine Exports LLP
65. Naga Hanuman Fish Packers
66. NDM Seafood Processors & Exporters Private Limited
67. Neeli Aqua Private Limited
68. Nekkanti Mega Food Park Private Limited
69. Nekkanti Sea Foods Limited
70. Nezami Rekha Sea Foods Private Limited; Nezami Rekha Sea Food
Private Limited
71. Nila Sea Foods Exports; Nila Sea Foods Pvt. Ltd.
72. Pasupati Aquatics Private Limited
73. Penver Products (P) Ltd
74. Rising Tide
75. Royal Imports and Exports
76. Royale Marine Impex Pvt. Ltd.
77. S.A. Exports
78. Safa Global Impex
79. Sagar Grandhi Exports Pvt. Ltd.
80. Sai Marine Exports Pvt. Ltd.
81. Sam Aqua Exports LLP
82. Sandhya Marines Limited
83. Sea Foods Private Limited
84. Sharat Industries Ltd.
85. Shree Datt Aquaculture Farms Pvt. Ltd.
86. Sigma Seafoods
87. Snow World Marine Exports Private Limited
88. Southern Tropical Foods Pvt. Ltd.
89. Sprint Exports Pvt. Ltd.
90. Sreeragam Export Private Limited
91. Srikanth International
92. Srikanth International Private Limited
93. Star Agro Marine Exports Private Limited
94. Summit Marine Exports Private Limited
95. Sunrise Seafoods India Private Limited
96. Suryamitra Exim Pvt. Ltd.
97. The Waterbase Ltd.
98. V.V. Marine Products
99. Vaisakhi Bio-Marine Private Limited
100. Varma Marine Private Limited
101. Vasista Marine
102. Vasista Marine Private Limited
103. Veerabhadra Exports Private Limited
104. Wellcome Fisheries Limited
105. Z.A. Sea Foods Pvt. Ltd.
106. Zeal Aqua Limited
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