LETTER: State still not protecting poultry sector
Tariffs have not been announced since the signing of the poultry industry master plan
07 January 2020 - 15:17
This week marks two months since the poultry industry master plan was signed. Yet while SA goes back to work in a new year, chicken industry workers enter 2020 with continuing uncertainty about their future, while those hoping for jobs in a new, expanded industry wait in vain.
The reason is the failure of the government to announce new tariffs to protect workers and their jobs against dumped chicken imports from Brazil. A decision has been on hold, but two months after the chicken industry master plan promised to “contain” imports nothing has happened...
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