GLOBAL TRADE
Brazil gets short end of stick in superpowers’ poultry wrangle
Beijing — China will impose temporary antidumping measures on imports of Brazilian chicken, it said on Friday, at the same time as the US puts pressure on Beijing to reopen its market to US poultry products. Chinese importers of Brazilian chicken were required to pay deposits ranging from 18.8% to 38.4% of the value of their shipments from Saturday, the commerce ministry said. A preliminary ruling from the ministry found that Chinese producers had been "substantially damaged" by shipments from Brazil between 2013 and 2016, when the country supplied more than half of China’s imports of chicken. The antidumping measures are another blow to Brazilian meatpackers, recovering from a food-safety scandal in 2017 and a May truckers’ protest that forced farms to cull 70-million chickens due to lack of feed. Third-party countries They also show how third-party countries like Brazil, the world’s largest chicken exporter, could become collateral damage as the US and China look for ways to head ...
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