The U.S. is “deeply disappointed” in South Africa’s decision to increase import tariffs on bone-in chicken to 62% from a prior mark of 37% and on frozen boneless chicken to 42% from a prior 12%, according to a report from Bloomberg.
The domestic South African poultry industry called for the tariff hikes, indicating imports of the product from the U.S. and Brazil resulted in a loss of $393 million.
The higher tariffs do not apply to shipments from the European Union and from members of the Southern African Development Community (Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe).
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