If you thought that the imposition of anti-dumping duties on chicken exports from the United States of America was confined to South Africa only, you would be gravely mistaken. It seems that in the People’s Republic of China (China) there’s a similar concern about US chicken entering their market.
On 18 January the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) panel issued its compliance report in the dispute “China - Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Measures on Broiler Products from the United States - Recourse to Article 21.5 Of the DSU by the United States”.
The WTO concluded that China had acted inconsistently with certain provisions of the Anti-Dumping and Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM) agreements. Accordingly, China’s trade remedy measures taken to comply with the DSB’s recommendations and rulings in the original dispute, at issue in this proceeding, are inconsistent with the relevant covered agreements.
China therefore failed to comply with the recommendations and rulings of the DSB to bring its measures into conformity with its obligations under the Anti-Dumping and SCM agreements. To the extent that China failed to comply with the recommendations and rulings of the DSB, those recommendations and rulings remain operative.
