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### Viewing cable 06CHENNAI1497, SMALL INDIAN SHRIMP EXPORTERS SETTLE WITH

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    RR RUEHBI RUEHCI
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    R 131148Z JUL 06
    FM AMCONSUL CHENNAI
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 8998
    INFO RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI 1804
    RUEHBI/AMCONSUL MUMBAI 4806
    RUEHCI/AMCONSUL CALCUTTA 0553
    RUEHLM/AMEMBASSY COLOMBO 1235
    RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 0023
    RUEHQT/AMEMBASSY QUITO 0025
    RUEHHI/AMEMBASSY HANOI 0041
    RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 0182
    RUEHBK/AMEMBASSY BANGKOK 2285

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 CHENNAI 001497

    SIPDIS

    SENSITIVE

    SIPDIS

    USDOC FOR MAC/ANESA/OSA/LDROKER/ASTERN
    USTR FOR SOUTH ASIA - AWILLIS/BSTILLMAN/JROSENBAUM

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: ETRD PGOV EFIS EIND IN CE BR EC TH CH VM
    SUBJECT: SMALL INDIAN SHRIMP EXPORTERS SETTLE WITH
    SOUTHERN SHRIMP ALLIANCE

    REF: (A)05 CHENNAI 0121, (B)O4 CHENNAI 0944

    ¶1. (SBU) SUMMARY: 24 Indian shrimp exporters have reached
    agreement with the Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) to
    remove their names from the Department of Commerce's
    review list for imposition of dumping duties.  This
    continues the trend that began in May when exporters from
    Thailand, Vietnam and Ecuador began making agreements
    with SSA.  Fears about the sampling method to be used for
    selection of companies to be part of the review process
    and the possibility of the imposition of penalty duties
    for non-response by relatively anonymous trader-exporters
    forced manufacture exporters to settle.  Four large
    manufacture exporters who account for 64 percent of
    Indian exports refused to settle with SSA, however.  With
    the withdrawal of the 24 exporters from the review,
    Indian industry sources believe the Department of
    Commerce will be forced to continue to use the
    traditional "largest by volume" methodology in its review
    rather than the "sampling" approach which they fear.  END
    SUMMARY

    --------------------------------------------- --
    24 INDIAN COMPANIES OPT FOR SETTLEMENT
    --------------------------------------------- --

    ¶2. (SBU) 24 Indian shrimp exporters effectively removed
    themselves from the Department of Commerce review list
    for imposition of dumping duties by entering into
    settlements with the Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) (Refs
    A and B).  These companies form part of a list of 60
    companies identified by the Department of Commerce for
    review.  According to Elias Sait, Secretary General,
    Seafood Exporters Association of India (SEAI), about 20
    companies on that list were trader-exporters, i.e.
    companies that do not have their own processing
    facilities as contrasted with manufacture exporters who
    perform their own processing.  Sait said that these
    companies do not have permanent addresses and have not
    responded to Department of Commerce queries.
    Accordingly, they were assessed penalty duties of over
    100%.  SEAI fears that should one of these companies be
    selected in the sample used by the Department of
    Commerce, the duty level might rise further above the
    currently high levels.  Sait told Post that in a DVC with
    Department of Commerce officials held on June 10, 2006
    verbal assurances were given that the companies which are
    assigned penalty duties would be kept out of the sample.
    No written guarantee was provided, however, and Sait told
    Post that lack of confidence on that issue forced the 24
    to settle.

    --------------------------------
    LARGE EXPORTERS REFUSE TO SETTLE
    --------------------------------

    ¶3. (SBU) Four of the largest Indian shrimp manufacturers,
    Hindustan Lever Limited, Liberty Group, Falcon Marine
    Exports and ITC Limited, decided against settling with
    SSA.  These companies account for 64 percent of the
    shrimp exported to the U.S. from India.  According to the
    trade advisor to SEAI, these companies declined to settle
    because they feel that a sampling approach by the
    Department of Commerce is a near certainty in the next
    review which will take place in 2008.  They believe that
    the current review must now be completed using a "largest
    by volume" approach because so few companies remain to be
    reviewed.  The largest by volume method offers them the
    best chance of achieving a reduction in their duty rates
    from the current 15.36 percent in the case of HLL and
    10.17 percent in the case of the other three companies.

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    SETTLEMENT HELPS SSA MEET ITS LEGAL COSTS
    -----------------------------------------

    ¶4. (SBU) The inability of the SSA to pay expensive legal
    costs associated with the case was another reason that

    CHENNAI 00001497  002 OF 002

    they encouraged settlements, according to SEAI.  SEAI's
    Elias Sait told Post that Hurricane Katrina decimated the
    shrimp fleets in the Gulf of Mexico, diminishing SSA's
    ability to collect fees from member companies.  Sait says
    that Dewey Ballantine, legal counsel for SSA, drafted an
    agreement for each of the companies listed in the review
    document.  According to Sait, Ballantine demanded a
    $10,000 payment from each exporting company merely to
    enter into negotiations on removal from the list.
    Ballantine explained that the $10,000 fee was to meet
    legal costs.

    --------------------------------------------- ----
    SETTLEMENTS MAY MAKE DEVI SEAFOODS A MAJOR PLAYER
    --------------------------------------------- ----

    ¶5. (SBU) COMMENT: The recent round of settlements might
    well turn Devi Seafoods, formerly an also-ran among
    Indian exporters, into a major player.  Devi has a 4.94
    percent duty compared with the 10.17 percent rate that
    many other exporters face.  The SEAI trade advisor told
    Post that exporters might now route their exports through
    Devi to derive the benefits of the company's lower duty.
    This approach, he believes, could hurt U.S. importers in
    the long run.  END COMMENT

    ¶6. (U) This message was coordinated with Embassy New
    Delhi.

    HOPPER

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