Source: Chris Scott, MEATINGPLACE, 7/10/14


The National Chicken Council (NCC) and USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAEEC) expressed their joint disappointment that China didn’t go as far as they had hoped in revising anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on U.S. chicken processors.

The groups are upset because China’s Ministry of Commerce lowered and anti-dumping duty “slightly” on two of three U.S. chicken companies named in a trade dispute under the oversight of the World Trade Organization (WTO). That agency found in favor of the U.S. chicken industry but China raise the duty on a third company and other companies that cooperated with the WTO probe last fall, according to the two U.S. organizations.

China officials lowered the anti-dumping duty on U.S. processors to a maximum of 46.6 percent from 105.4 percent and the anti-subsidy tax to a maximum of 4.2 percent from 30.3 percent after four years of taxes on U.S. chicken imports.

NCC and USAEEC officials say they plan to ask the U.S. government – including the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative – for assistance in determining the industry’s options and next steps.

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