After anti-dumping duty, US hits shrimp exporters with non-tariff barrier

Shrimps included in Seafood Import Monitoring Program, which tracks imported seafood in order to thwart dubious fishing activity

In order to discourage imports to the US, the Donald Trump administration has imposed a non-tariff barrier by including shrimps in the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) which may hurt exports from India. The US is the largest market for USD five billion Indian seafood sector.

Earlier US imposed anti-dumping duty. Although this duty on India was not high, India was exporting shrimp to US via Vietnam which was facing steel hike in anti-dumping from India. Even EU had said that India should monitor primary production of shrimp before exporting to EU.

SIMP requires traceability information on imported seafood from point of