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While South Africa’s poultry industry feels let down, other industries are getting government support as they battle new United States tariffs.

The European poultry industry is fighting against concessions made to South America in a looming trade pact between the two regions.

South Africa is food secure as a nation and produces food for export, but horrific statistics of hunger and malnutrition illustrate the often dire situation in the country’s poorest households.

Poultry imports to South Africa plummeted for a second successive month in July due to the nine-week bird flu ban on Brazil. Local producers increased production in response, keeping supply and retail prices stable.

Are chicken importers still making a killing from selling frozen packs of mechanically deboned meat (MDM) at very high prices? […]

South Africans are expected to eat more meat per person as incomes improve over the coming decade, with chicken leading the way because of affordability and the fact that it is seen as a healthy dietary option.

A South African negotiating team is in the United States, hoping to negotiate a trade deal that lowers US import […]

United States trade negotiators are demanding the lifting of general tariffs on imports of American chicken into South Africa. The problem for South African negotiators is that the duties apply to multiple countries, not only the US.

Discussions about general duties come as South African poultry producers are already facing the likelihood of a 72 000-tonne annual quota of American chicken imports free of the anti-dumping duties that should apply.

While South African cars, fruits and wines are being walloped with high tariffs in the United States, the same products are wrongly subject to millions in tariffs in the United Kingdom, despite a duty-free agreement.

South Africa is not the only country seeking alternative export markets because of the sudden imposition of high tariffs in […]

Chinese exporters are going to find barriers going up in Mexico, as well as in the United States, as the US pressures its southern neighbour to block the passage of Chinese goods flowing to America through Mexico.

The poultry industry is a vital part of the South African economy, and it deserves more support and protection from the government, according to Rainbow CEO Marthinus Stander.

America’s legal system could grant South Africa’s poultry industry a reprieve from the threatened annual quota of dumped US chicken that South Africa has offered to United States trade negotiators.

Rainbow, South Africa’s second largest chicken producer, has delivered a strong set of results while noting the serious challenges faced by the country’s poultry industry.

In its results statement, Rainbow expanded on some of the challenges facing the South African poultry industry.

South Africa’s agriculture minister, John Steenhuisen, has emphasised the importance of the food cold chain to get more food to Africa’s rising population.

South Africa’s nine-week bird flu ban on poultry imports from Brazil halved those import levels in June. Early statistics for July indicate another dramatic drop in monthly import volumes.

South Africa’s chickens are high on the country’s stock theft list, agricultural economist Wandile Sihlobo has pointed out.

American poultry producers and South African chicken importers are fighting to retain an annual quota that allows huge volumes of US chicken to enter the South African market at dumped prices.

The statement by the US poultry bosses revealed that their primary target is not the 72 000 tonne quota, which they seem to regard as a victory already won, but the other tariffs that apply to imports of US chicken into South Africa.

Major poultry producers such as the European Union and the United States have been able to dump unwanted chicken portions in South Africa because producers make their money on other chicken cuts.

South African manufacturers have started finding new export markets as the Trump administration’s tariffs threaten to price them out of the United States.

A flood of cheap chicken imports from the United States could harm the broader South African economy.

Agriculture can boost South Africa’s stuttering economy, but only if government creates an environment that’s more conducive to private sector investment.

South Africa is continuing its efforts to get a trade deal with the United States that lowers the 30% tariffs on exports to America that came into effect this month.

South African agricultural exports to the United States rose sharply in the first half of the year as farmers rushed products to America before the tariff gates came clanging down.

South Africa’s poultry imports plummeted in June as a bird flu ban blocked shipments from Brazil, its main supplier. This is the first month when the nine-week ban on Brazilian poultry imports has shown up in official statistics.

The South African poultry industry will be vulnerable to avian influenza (bird flu) for the next year, because so far only one chicken flock had been vaccinated against the disease.

Poultry famers in the Western Cape are on high alert following renewed outbreaks of avian influenza (bird flu) in seabirds near the Cape coast. The disease has been carried worldwide by migratory wild birds.

Agriculture can boost South Africa’s stuttering economy, but only if government creates an environment that’s more conducive to private sector investment.

As it had feared, the South African poultry industry is being sacrificed as South Africa tries to avert the 30% tariffs that have been threatened on all its exports to the United States.

A legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs is winding its way up to the US Supreme Court, which […]