CIT sustains ITC material-injury finding on subsidized shrimp from Ecuador

The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained the International Trade Commission's affirmative material-injury determination in the countervailing duty investigation of fresh warmwater shrimp and frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador, India and Vietnam, in Slip Op. 26-105, Court No. 25-00029, dated September 4, 2026. Ecuadorian producers Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila, S.A. and Sociedad Nacional de Galapagos, C.A. argued that rising diesel fuel costs, not subsidized imports, caused the domestic industry's harm, and that the Commission abused its discretion by declining to request the fishermen's diesel purchase volumes. The court found no evidence of bias and held the Commission's determination supported by substantial evidence.