At the end of October, the dispute settlement body (DSB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued its final ruling on a China-US poultry dispute which first erupted in 2009. It ruled that section 727 of the US Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2009, which effectively barred Chinese chicken, turkey and duck from entering the US market, was illegal. Section 727 reads: “None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to establish or implement a rule allowing poultry products to be imported into the United States from the People’s Republic of China.”
Yao Jian, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, said that China welcomed the final ruling that the US ban on Chinese poultry was inconsistent with WTO rules. In a statement on the ministry’s website, Yao said Chinese poultry products were safe and called for the US to conduct fair assessments and tests on the meat.
In a statement addressing the DSB meeting, the Chinese delegation to the WTO said the US had effectively banned imports of poultry products from China since 2007, thereby fundamentally violating relevant WTO rules and substantially impairing the “rights and benefits that Chinese enterprises deserve to enjoy under the multilateral trading system”.
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