LETTER: Dumping is not free trade, it’s predatory
These imports do much harm to local industry
The mysterious Mr Peerie gets his facts wrong in defending chicken importers (“Chicken dumping really just a red herring”, March 30 (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2021-03-30-letter-chicken-dumping-really-just-a-red-herring/)). I say “mysterious” because I suspect he is using a pseudonym; it is difficult these days for anyone to exist without any online presence.
Real or not, Peerie tries to play down the damage dumped imports do to the local industry and its jobs, and misrepresents an application for antidumping duties as protectionism. As I noted in the article, he criticises, the industry’s application, [which] sets out in great detail the material injury inflicted by years of dumped imports (“Chicken importers need to read the literature on dumping,” March 30)...
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