The SA Poultry Association welcomes finding on dumping

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

The South African Poultry Association says it welcomes the finding by the International Trade and Administration Commission that dumping of EU poultry products has been taking place in South Africa, and that the appropriate measures have been put in place to correct this.

SAPA's CEO, Kevin Lovell says it is a relief that preliminary anti-dumping duties have been applied to imports from the Netherlands, Germany and the UK, although different duties will be applied to poultry from Germany and the Netherlands.

"Anti-dumping duties are not meant to be a punishment they merely meant to correct an unfairness or a wrong. So wherever companies participate in the investigations they will be individually measured. If companies choose not to participate or provide the wrong information, then there is a residule duty that is supplied. That's why you have different levels for the different companies in the different companies. In the UK they have not yet verified any of the UK companies so they use the calculation model." says Lovell