The South African government has announced that it is raising tariffs on imports of poultry to bolster domestic producers, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Duties on bone-in chicken products and frozen boneless chicken were raised to 62% and 42%, up from 37% and 12%, respectively, according to the report, which quotes the National Treasury. The tariffs apply to all nations apart from those in the European Union and Southern African Development Community.
The move inflames a long-running dispute between South Africa and the U.S., which has long argued that the former’s antidumping tariffs were illegal and held by the World Trade Organization to be inconsistent with international trade rules. In 2015, the two nations reached a settlement in which South Africa agreed to allow 65,000 metric tons of U.S. poultry meat to be imported tariff-free every year.
Read the full Bloomberg report here.