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Vietnam to probe U.S. frozen chicken amid local petitions for anti-dumping

Xinhua, August 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Vietnam will probe into whether frozen chicken legs from the United States sold at 20,000 Vietnamese dong (around 0.92 U.S. dollars) per kilogram in Vietnamese market can be considered dumping, said a Vietnamese official here on Wednesday.

Deputy Director of the Department of Livestock under Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Van Trong made the remarks at a press conference held in Hanoi that the livestock associations of the country's southeast region and southern Dong Nai province filed petitions for an anti-dumping investigation into frozen chicken legs from the United States.

Chicken legs are sold in the U.S. at between 3-3.5 U.S. dollars (around 65,000-75,000 Vietnamese dong) per kg, Trong said at a press conference held over the case, adding that Vietnamese agencies need to examine the quality of U.S.-origin poultry imports as products near their expiry dates are usually cheap in the United States.

Meanwhile, Phung Huu Hao, deputy director of the Ministry's Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department, said at the conference that if companies imported cheap frozen products and labeled false expiry dates, it is trade fraud.

Hao was quoted by Vietnam's state-run news agency VNA as saying that during a working visit to the U.S. in late 2014, the ministry detected food safety regulation violations in several food production facilities. It also sent a report on the issues to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. side acknowledged all the violations specified in the report.

Vietnam imported around 100,000 tons of frozen poultry meat per year. Imported chicken meat was equivalent to one third of the total domestic chicken meat output, according to VNA.

Earlier, Vietnam's Southeast Region Livestock Association, whose members sell about 8 million chickens a month, said the U.S. chickens at low price caused them to lose about 500 billion Vietnamese dong (over 23 million U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2015.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Poultry and Egg Export Council has rejected complaints from Vietnam that chicken products from the U.S. are being dumped at below-market prices in the country, saying U.S. chicken parts are sold in Vietnam at the same or higher prices than in the United States. Endi