GROBEST & I-MEI INDUS. (VIETNAM) v. U.S.

Slip Op. 11-64. Court No. 10-00238.

781 F.Supp.2d 1304 (2011)

GROBEST & I-MEI INDUSTRIAL (VIETNAM) CO., LTD., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant, and Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee and American Shrimp Processors Association, Defendant-Intervenors.

United States Court of International Trade.

June 7, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thompson Hine LLP ( Matthew R. Nicely and David S. Christy, Jr. ), Washington, DC, and Trade Pacific PLLC ( Robert G. Gosselink and Jonathan M. Freed , Paducah, KY), for Plaintiff and Consolidated Defendant-Intervenor Grobest & I-Mei Industrial Co. Ltd.; Consolidated Plaintiffs Nha Trang Fisheries Joint Stock Co., Bac Liu Fisheries Joint Stock Co., Camau Frozen Seafood Processing Import Export Corp., Ca Mau Seafood Joint Stock Co., Cadovimex Seafood Import-Export and Processing Joint Stock Co., Cafatex Fishery Joint Stock Co., Cantho Import Export Fishery Ltd. Co., C.P. Vietnam Livestock Corp., Cuulong Seaproducts Co., Danang Seaproducts Import Export Corp., Investment Commerce Fisheries Corp., Minh Hai Export Frozen Seafood Processing Joint Stock Co., Minh Hai Join Stock Seafood Processing Co., Ngoc Sing Private Enterprise, Phu Cuong Seafood Processing & Import-Export Co. Ltd., Phuong Nam Co. Ltd., Sao Ta Foods Joint Stock Co., Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Co., Thuan Phuoc Seafoods and Trading Corp., UTXI Aquatic Products Processing Corp., and Viet Foods Co. Ltd.; and Consolidated Plaintiffs and Consolidated Defendant-Intervenors Cam Ranh Seafoods Processing Enterprise Co., Contessa Premium Foods Inc., H & N Foods International, Minh Phu Seafood Corp., Minh Phat Seafood Co. Ltd., Minh Qui Seafood Co. Ltd., and Nha Trang Seaproduct Co.

DeKieffer & Horgan ( John J. Kenkel and James K. Horgan ), Thompson Hine LLP ( Matthew R. Nicely ), Washington, DC, and Trade Pacific PLLC ( Jonathan M. Freed , Paducah, KY), for Consolidated Plaintiff Viet Hai Seafood Co., Ltd.

White & Case LLP ( Walter C. Spak , Adams C. Lee and Jay C. Campbell , Washington, DC), Thompson Hine LLP ( Matthew R. Nicely ), Washington, DC, and Trade Pacific PLLC ( Jonathan M. Freed , Paducah, KY), for Consolidated Plaintiff Amanda Foods (Vietnam) Ltd.

Tony West , Assistant Attorney General; Jeanne E. Davidson , Director; Patricia M. McCarthy , Assistant Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, ( Joshua E. Kurland ), and, of counsel, Jonathan M. Zielinski , Attorney, Office of the Chief Counsel for Import Administration, Department of Commerce, for the Defendant.

Picard Kentz & Rowe LLP ( Andrew W. Kentz , Jordan C. Kahn , Nathaniel M. Rickard , and Kevin M. O'Connor ), for Defendant-Intervenor Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee.

Stewart and Stewart ( Geert M. De Prest and Elizabeth J. Drake ), Washington, DC, and Leake & Andersson LLP ( Edward T. Hayes ), New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Intervenor American Shrimp Processors Association.


OPINION AND ORDER

POGUE, Chief Judge:

The complaint in this consolidated action challenges certain determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce ("the Department") during the fourth administrative review of the antidumping duty order covering frozen warmwater shrimp from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.2 Before the court is Defendant's motion to dismiss, in part, for failure to state a claim upon which relief may...

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