It is claimed that the increase would make chicken 32% more expensive, but the SA Poultry Association says imports are getting harder to compete with.
Poultry importers have upped the ante in their fierce lobby against proposed duty tariff increases, claiming this would make chicken 32% more expensive for consumers.
Sapa claims the current duties failed to make up for the unfair trade posed by the fact that international producers such as those in Brazil had considerably lower production costs, thanks to substantial government subsidies, making imports harder to compete with.
“A researched report done by an independent economics-based consulting firm on the potential price effect of said tariff application was recently submitted to Itac. Sacu chairperson Dr Cliff Johnson suggested that the real effect of the tariff hikes could be even more dire than the suggested price hikes. He said it could lead to lower demand in the market because the poor, who were the biggest consumers, would be left with no choice but to buy and eat less food.
Nontwenhle Mchunu, founder of local chicken importer Mkabayi Group, added that local producers were the anti-competitive party, saying the only market allowing for smaller and emerging industry players was in imports.
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