AMIE, Hume ask for more agile trade responses as chicken, egg supply tightens

The Association of Meat Importers and Exporters (AMIE) has welcomed Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel’s directive to the Import and Export Control Regime, administered by the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac), to consider creating a temporary rebate on import duties for chicken as a shortage in the market looms. AMIE, in particular, proposes that Itac reduce the import duties on frozen bone-in chicken from 62% to 37%, boneless chicken from 42% to 12% and to zero-rate chicken offals such as carcasses, feet, heads, and liver, which are the chicken products most consumed by low-income households and consumers, for 12 months.