Trade Minister's move to approve tariff rebates on chicken imports stirs controversy, dividing the poultry industry.
The decision to approve tariff rebates on thousands of tons of chicken imports is unbelievable and must be reversed, says Francois Baird, founder of the FairPlay movement.
This follows Itac’s announcement in October 2023 it would consider rebates to avoid poultry shortages when SA was hit by a highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak. He directed that any rebates should be “for the duration of the shortage of chicken as a result of an outbreak of HPAI”.However, not everyone in the poultry industry supports this decision. The SA Poultry Association argued there was no rational basis for rebates on tariffs.
“Despite the reduction of millions of chickens last year because of bird flu outbreaks, production has recovered to normal levels of 21.5 million chickens a week,” said Sapa.
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