US Shrimp Fishermen Seek Tariffs on Thailand, China, Vietnam, India, Ecuador, Brazil VOA News 31 Dec 2003, 20:17 UTC U.S. shrimp fishermen are asking Washington to impose tariffs on shrimp imports from Thailand, China, Vietnam, India, Ecuador, and Brazil. In petitions to the U.S. Commerce Department Wednesday, fishermen's groups accused those nations of selling shrimp in the United States at unfairly low prices. Members of the U.S. shrimp industry say their business has been devastated by foreign competition much of which is farmed shrimp. The American Seafood Distributors' Association says new tariffs would hurt U.S. consumers and are a bad...