Beijing/Sao Paulo — China has launched an antidumping investigation into imports of Brazilian broiler chicken in another blow for the South American country’s meat industry and threatening more than $1bn of exports annually. The investigation comes after a complaint from China’s domestic industry that Brazil, its top chicken supplier, has been selling its broilers below market value. Any move to penalise imports would hurt Brazil’s protein industry which has already been tarnished in 2017 by a food safety scandal. Between 2013 and 2016 Brazil accounted for more than 50% of broiler product supplies to China, the world’s second-largest poultry consumer, China’s commerce ministry said. It accounted for almost 85% of frozen chicken imports — almost 600,000 tonnes valued at as much as $1.23bn, according to Chinese customs data. "The announcement of the investigation itself works like a barrier because the potential imposition of antidumping charges could constrain Chinese importers," sai...
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