Depending on your perspective, paying lots of money to US catfish or shrimp groups to avoid a potential change in an antidumping rate is either good business sense or legalized extortion.
But no matter on which side of the fence you sit, so called “settlements” are as legal as any court settlement and have become a cottage industry in antidumping cases – and not just in seafood; It's happening in furniture, tomatoes and more.
So-called settlements essentially suspend the antidumping investigation and antidumping duties if a foreign exporter is willing to pay a fee to be exempted from an annual dumping review.
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