Respected economist Mike Schussler made some telling points in his recent article, but omitted many other very relevant issues and also skilfully dodged a few .
Schussler also omits to tell us that there is a huge difference in product. Local chicken’s primary income source, which equates to over 60% of sales, is individually quick-frozen mixed portions. The current case is about leg quarters, which represent somewhere around 5% of local poultry sales. Schussler may well be correct that dumping is occurring, but he seems to forget the most relevant issue of all — dumping must be proven to have caused “material” injury. Material means substantial. Reading annual reports and media releases from reputable and well-run local poultry companies, they openly concede that their biggest profit destroyer over the last few years has been the huge increase in feed costs, which represents some 65% of total “live costs of producing a broiler”.
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