US lawmaker wants $36 million for shrimp and red snapper monitoring in seafood import program

게시됨 2024년 1월 5일

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Republican Senator John Kennedy introduced a bill to redirect $36 million from the US Treasury to fund the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Seafood Import Monitoring Program, with a focus on auditing imported shrimp and red snapper. The bill has been referred to the US Senate's Committee on Finance and proposes taking the funds from the Internal Revenue Service. The push for increased scrutiny on imported seafood comes after the United States International Trade Commission determined that the domestic shrimp industry is materially injured by imports from Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

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US Republican Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana has introduced a bill that would take $36 million (€33 million) from the US Treasury and put it towards the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) to increase audits of imported shrimp and red snapper. The bill, which was introduced to the Senate in December, has been referred to the US Senate's Committee on Finance. The sparsely-worded measure said the money could be taken from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as part of the inflation reduction act. In recent months the US government has honed in on shrimp imports as being problematic for domestic shrimp producers. Last month the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) made an affirmative preliminary determination regarding antidumping and countervailing duty petitions filed by the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA) on imports of shrimp from Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The commission, in ...

출처: Intrafish