WTO Safeguard Notification On 16 December 2013 the Committee on Safeguards of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) gave notification of South Africa’s intention to impose a final safeguard on frozen potato chips. The notice indicates that it “will come into effect in mid January”. Based on the Government Gazette notice of the imposition of the provisional payment (provisional safeguard) it needs to be imposed by no later than 20 January 2014. WTO TBT Notification On 11 December 2013 the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade of the WTO gave notification of South Africa’s intention to regulate the control over the sale of poultry meat. The purpose of the amendment to the existing regulations is to provide for the injection (treatment) of poultry with brine mixtures, to set the levels of injection, and to provide for labelling and consumer information.