Vietnam accuses U.S. of dumping chicken meat

Chicken farmers in Vietnam say they will file an anti-dumping complaint with their nation’s Competition Authority next month against imports of U.S. poultry meat, just days after the TPP trade accord was reached. “Vietnam’s Southeastern Livestock Association asserts the poultry is sold at prices lower than those in the United States,” Bloomberg reported. It says the dispute illustrates the dual-sided effects of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. U.S. consumers prefer light-colored chicken meat, so processors export darker meat, which is more popular overseas. The Vietnamese farmers say U.S. poultry meat is sold in their country for one-third the price that Americans pay. A U.S. trade group told Bloomberg that the Vietnamese growers were using an improper comparison – free-range, antibiotic-free chicken meat in the United States vs frozen leg quarters exported in bulk.

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