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In 2002, the United States accused Vietnam of dumping basa catfish on the American market, charging the Vietnamese importers, who are subsidized by Vietnam's government, of unfair competition. With pressures from the U.S. catfish industry, the United States Congress passed a law in 2003 preventing the imported fish from being labelled as catfish, as well as imposing additional tariffs on the imported fish. Here locally, some restaurants and retail stores refused to sell the cheaper, imported catfish while other establishments sold the inferior fish and labeled it as "Catfish."