A chairperson says slapping massive import tariff increases is the low road, and simply a way to shut down competition.
The South African National Consumer Union warned on Wednesday that increasing tariffs on imported poultry products could hike local chicken prices by up to 32%.
EBieSA chairperson Unati Speirs said SAPA’s rationale was that imports were damaging the local industry, but said EBieSA believed the producers association only wanted to protect members’ profits to the detriment of consumers and emerging black importers. “What is true, is that this perception is being created in order to drive further protection for local producers, in an already concentrated and un-transformed market.”
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