Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE.COM, 9/28/09

Two days after congressional conferees cleared the way for Chinese chicken product imports, China announced it will go forward with its unfair trade practice investigation of U.S. poultry products in a sign that trade friction between the two countries continues.

"The Ministry of Commerce believes that this case meets the legal conditions and has decided to conduct an investigation of unfair trade practices like dumping and subsidizing of U.S. chicken products," the ministry said in a notice on its Web site on Sunday.

Two weeks ago China said it was launching an anti-dumping and anti-subsidies investigations into some U.S. automobile and chicken products. 

The announcement came on the heels of an Obama administration announcement that the United States would increase duties on imports of tires from China for three years to remedy a market disruption from a surge in tire imports.