POULTRY IMPORTS
Goldstone joins FairPlay trading lobby
FairPlay is trying to stop the dumping of frozen, bone-in chicken products in SA
Richard Goldstone, the renowned South African Constitutional Court judge who also prosecuted war crimes for the UN in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, has become a patron of the FairPlay antidumping movement. Founded by US-based South African businessman and philanthropist Francois Baird, FairPlay is trying to stop the dumping of frozen, bone-in chicken products in SA. Goldstone joins its panel of domestic and international experts to help implement policies benefiting chicken producers and consumers. FairPlay says it has united SA’s three main chicken producers — RCL Foods, Astral Foods and Country Bird Holdings — along with the South African Poultry Association (Sapa) and the Food and Allied Workers Union in opposing dumping. Goldstone says when international trade is conducted according to WTO rules, it enhances wealth creation for everyone and serves all the stakeholders in a value chain. "However, dumping breaks the rules and, in the process, it unfairly destroys value, jobs a...
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