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DA bans poultry products fr Michigan
By J.Lo
“Strengthening and increasing safeguard duties imposed on chicken give immediate temporary relief to local broiler sector, without adversely affecting chicken retail price,” Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM) president Edicio dela Torre said importation of poultry products from Michigan has been temporarily banned amid outbreak of bird flu.
Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. issued Memorandum Order 24 due to an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus in Michigan in US.
Domestic and wild birds and their products, including poultry meat, day-old chicks, eggs and semen are covered by ban.
Bird flu viruses do not normally infect humans but sporadic human infections with avian influenza viruses have occurred, according to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Meanwhile, Philippine government should consider increasing trigger price of its price-based special safeguard (SSG) duties on imported chicken to curb imports and protect local producers, according to non-profit Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM).
SSG provides immediate and temporary protection to local producers against import surges or cheap importation of competing products, PRRM said.
A price-based SSG is trade remedy that allows country to impose additional duty on an imported product whose price falls below established trigger price.
Present trigger prices for price-based SSG-eligible products were computed based on weighted average of their import prices from 1986 to 1988, as per World Trade Organization Agreement on Agriculture (WTO-AoA).
Imported chicken’s current trigger price, including whole chicken and cuts, is P93.96 per kilo.
Trigger price and its implementation should be reviewed every six months “when excess supply is expected to go above 60 days in inventory based on Department of Agriculture forecasts,” Dela Torre proposed.
At present, government’s hands are tied to WTO-AoA’s existing rules.
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