EU rejects SA’s dumping claims
EU criticises SA Poultry Association for ‘massive’ media campaign falsely alleging it is dumping bone-in chicken — but the association intends to fight all EU countries
The EU has rejected as false claims by local poultry producers that it is dumping bone-in chicken portions onto the local market and causing widespread job losses in the industry. Major poultry producers have shed jobs and closed plants because of what they say is the flood of imports from the EU. Total poultry imports currently represent about 26% of consumption according to the South African Poultry Association. The EU delegation to SA has criticised the association for conducting what it calls a "massive" media campaign against EU poultry imports "alleging, on a daily basis, that the root cause of the job losses is the ongoing dumping, by the EU, of chicken bone-in parts. This allegation is false". "As we speak, there is no dumping of EU chicken in SA. If there had been, the association would have filed a complaint to the International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) for dumping, as they did in the past. They have not. The South African authorities themselves acknowledge t...
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