The U.S. shrimp industry has suffered a setback in its bid to slow down the amount of shrimp that's sent to the U.S. from foreign countries.
The U.S. International Trade Commission, in a ruling filed late last week, said that the U.S. industry is "neither materially injured nor threatened with material injury" by imports coming from China, Ecuador, India, Malaysia and Vietnam.
As a result, the commission said it will not issue any countervailing duty orders on imports coming from those countries.
The U.S. shrimp industry had argued that imports were threatening domestic businesses and that foreign countries were unfairly subsidizing their shrimp operations.