Local poultry farmers score major legal victory against chicken dumping

Meat importers and stakeholders challenged duties

- By Mzwandile kaBizokwakhe

A recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal has reinforced the legal framework protecting SA's poultry industry

With one swish of a pen, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) singularly saved South Africa's poultry farmers from the ravenous international chicken-dumping ruling that the imposition of duties on imported bone-in chicken portions was done legally.

The Association of Meat Importers and Exporters (Amie) had brought a court application to challenge the anti-dumping duties the finance ministry had imposed on frozen chicken imported from Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK.

The legal battle revolved around a process known as the "sunset review", which aimed to determine whether these duties should be extended beyond their initial five-year period.