"THE ERA of free trade in the world's most important seafood and aquaculture product has come to a close" is how FFI shrimp columnist Charles Woodhouse this month describes the US Department of Commerce's setting last month of provisional anti-dumping duties on exporters of shrimp to the US from Brazil, China, Ecuador, India, Thailand and Vietnam.
In a special report on pages 4 and 5 of this issue, Woodhouse explains what it could mean for the market, while we report on initial reactions from the affected countries.
