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Taiwan Invokes Safeguard, Higher Duties on Certain Chicken, Pork Imports

Taiwan recently notified the World Trade Organization that it invoked volume-based special safeguards on imports of other chicken cuts and pork belly, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service said in a report this month. USDA said Taiwan exceeded the specified trigger levels…

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for imports of both meats during the first nine months of the year, and Taiwan will impose additional tariffs, “equivalent to an additional one third of the normal duties” of 20% for WTO members, from Sept. 5 until Dec. 31. USDA said Taiwan imported 11,641.1 metric tons of other chicken cuts from January through September, 98% of which came from the U.S.