Freight and Trading Weekly
Staff reporter
The South African Revenue Service (Sars) – with effect from February 27, 2015 – has imposed anti-dumping duties of between 3.86% and 73.33% on frozen bone-in chicken portions originating in, or imported from, a number of producers in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
This follows an application by the South African Poultry Association (Sapa) to the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) for action against the alleged dumped imports of frozen bone-in portions originating in or imported from those countries.
Foster Mohale, spokesman for Itac, commented that Sapa had alleged that imports of frozen bone-in chicken portions originating in or imported from the three countries were being dumped on the South African Customs Union (Sacu) market, to the detriment of the Sacu industry.
According to Mohale, Itac made a preliminary determination and on July 4, 2014, Sars imposed provisional payments of between 22.03% and 73.33% on frozen bone-in chicken portions originating in or imported from the countries, effective until January 2, 2015.
“The investigation concluded that frozen bone-in chicken portions originating in, or imported from, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom were exported to the Sacu region at dumped prices,” said Mohale. He added that there were companies from those countries who were exempt from the anti-dumping duties, including Frisia Foods BV; Pluimveeslachterij C van Miert BV and Pluimveeslachterij Mieki Hunsel BV).