What is it with chicken – imported chicken that is? A few weeks ago there were the Agoa import quota permits, this on top of the anti-dumping duties, the ordinary safeguard duty and the ordinary rate of customs duty increases. So, with the exception of countervailing duties (anti-export subsidy) and the TDCA agricultural safeguard duty, all trade bases have been covered. Well, now all that remains is countervailing duty application.
On 19 February 2016, the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) announced that at the instruction of the Minister of Economic Development it would investigate and evaluate an application by the South African Poultry Association (SAPA) for the imposition of safeguard measures in terms of Article 16 (referred to as ‘section 16’ in the application) of the Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement (TDCA) between the European Community and its member states (read EU) and South Africa on frozen bone-in portions of fowls of the species Gallus Domesticus - chicken to you and me - classifiable under tariff subheadings 0207.14.91; 0207.14.93; 0207.14.95; 0207.14.96; 0207.14.97; 0207.14.98 and 0207.14.99.
Comment is due by 10 March 2016.