SOUTH AFRICA POULTRY PRODUCERS PUSH FOR DUTY PROTECTION
February 1st, 2017
SOUTH Africa’s poultry industry is in crisis, according to local producers, who claim thousands of jobs will be lost because European Union (EU) countries are dumping less-in-demand chicken pieces from their markets onto the southern African nation’s market.
Late last month (January) South Africa’s government subjected bone-in imported chicken to a 13.9% provisional safeguard duty until at least July 3 in a bid to stabilise the local industry and stave off major job losses in an already difficult economic climate.
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