Association Secretary Truong Dinh Hoe said thetax hike was made after the US checked errors in the calculationof the previous tax, saying that the increase was consistent with thecalculated data.
In March, the US imposed a hightax rate of 0.77 USD per kilo on Vietnamese tra fish. It choseIndonesia as the sole benchmark country to calculate the anti-dumpingrate, VASEP said.
On a brighter note, Japan , oneof the leading importers of Vietnamese seafood, has lifted a regulationthat imported Vietnamese shrimps must be tested for trifluralin, a typeof antibiotic, it said.
The regulation has been applied to all kinds of shrimps imported from Vietnam since October 2010.
The ban led to a close watch on the industry – from shrimp breeding tofinal processing – by Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment.
However, experts believe Vietnam is heading in the right direction in controlling seafood quality.
To push up the export turnover of seafood to the Japanese market,Deputy Director of the Department of Fisheries Nguyen Huy Dien saidlocalities need to further focus on preventing shrimp diseases.
In addition, Dien said it was also necessary to pass on shrimp raisingmethods that ensure low Ethoxyquin content, an anti-oxidant substancepopularly used in preserving aquatic feed.
In thefirst four months of this year, Japan imported shrimp worth more than168 million USD from Vietnam, an increase of 2.4 percent compared withthe same period last year.-VNA
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