According to VASEP seafood exporters will take action if the US imposes new anti-dumping tariffs on products of some Vietnamese seafood exporters. VASEP’s general secretary, Truong Dinh Hoe, said that the comparison of pangasius product prices in the Philippines and Vietnam was inappropriate as fish feed in the latter was priced $0.5 per kg compared with $2 per kg for the former.
Hoe also said that in Philippines production and management costs were also much higher than in Viet Nam. He told that it is unreasonable to impose the figures collected from 36 breeding ponds with a total of 12 tons per year in the Philippines with the breeding farms totalling 1 million tons of pangasius in Viet Nam.
Duong Ngoc Minh, deputy chairman of VASEP, explained that it is the duty of the association to prove that imposing such sky-high anti-dumping tariffs on Vietnamese pangasius would not only damage Viet Nam’s pangasius production but also cause losses for American customers.
MARD’s Deputy Minister Luong Le Phuong said the Vietnamese Government is ready to take necessary steps to prevent the imposition of the new anti-dumping tariffs, which would affect pangasius exports to other markets around the world.
