EU chicken import duty increase likely
A local task team will tackle challenges facing the poultry industry
A hike in the safeguard duty on bone-in chicken imports from the EU appears to be a likely outcome of a high-level meeting between the government, business and labour on Tuesday. In December, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies imposed a provisional 13.9% safeguard duty on the imports and instructed the International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) to review the duty, considering the effect imports would have on other Southern African Customs Union members of the economic partnership agreement with the EU. The poultry industry criticised the provisional duty as inadequate to deal with the crisis caused by the import of bone-in chicken portions from the EU. It applied for a 37% duty. As Itac has concluded its investigation into the effect of the imports of the EU chicken portions on the domestic market, the safeguard duty review should not take long to finalise.
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