/ 29 March 1999

DUMPING CHARGE RUFFLES FEATHERS

SOUTH Africa’s poultry industry will apply for anti-dumping measures to be taken against the United States following the apparent failure of tariff adjustments to various imports, says the Southern African Poultry Association. The association claims that adjusted tariffs have not slowed imports from the US, as much as 11000 tons of leg quarters between November 1998 and January 1999. Association executive director Zach Coetzee said dumping may be hard to prove, as the poultry is sold to SA at US domestic prices, indicating a lack of loss-pricing.