On November 17, 2014, a WTO Panel (the Panel) ruled that the U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC) had instituted anti-dumping regulations on certain Vietnamese frozen warmwater shrimp that are inconsistent with several articles of the Anti-Dumping Agreement (the Agreement).  According to the official summary, while the Panel found “Viet Nam had not established that there existed a USDOC practice amounting to a rule or norm of general and prospective application with respect to the manner in which the NME-wide entity rate is calculated,” it did find “the rate applied [by USDOC] to the Viet Nam-wide entity and its constituent companies in the administrative reviews at issue was inconsistent with Article 9.4 [anti-dumping duty applied to imports from exporters].”  The Panel recommended that the United States bring its actions in compliance with the Agreement.