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U.S. Customs and

Border Protection

January 14, 2020

Quang Van Le MSeafood Corpo ation 17934 Point Sur treet Fountain Valley, CA 92708 info@mseafood. om

Nathan Rickard On behalf of the Shrimp Trade E orcement Committee Picard Kentz & owe LLP 1750 K Street, N , Suite 800 Washington, DC 20006 nrickard@pkrllp. om

Re: Notice of Ini iation oflnvestigation and Interim Measures - EAPA Case 7356

To the Counsel a d Representatives of the above-referenced entities:

This letter is to i, form you that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has commenced a formal investigat on under Title IV, Section 421 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, co monly referred to as the Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA), for MSeafood Corporation (MS�afood). CBP is investigating whether MSeafood evaded antidumping duty (AD) order A-53

1-840 (the Order) on certain frozen warmwater shrimp (frozen shrimp) from

India I when imp, rting frozen shrimp into the United States. Because evidence supports a reasonable suspi ion that MSeafood entered covered merchandise into

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the customs territory of the United State through evasion, CBP has imposed interim measures.

Pursuant to 19 C • R 165 .2, entries covered by an EAP A investigation are those "entries of allegedly covere, merchandise made within one year before the receipt of an allegation .... " Entry is defined s an "entry, or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption, of merchandise in the customs terri ory of the United States."3 CBP acknowledged receipt of the properly filed

1 See Notice of Ame ded Final Determination a/Sale at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Frozen Wa nwater Shrimp ji-om India, 70 FR 5147 (February I, 2005) (Order). 2 See 19USC 1517( );see also 19CFR 165.24. 3 See 19 USC 1517( )(4); see also 19 CFR 165.1.

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