The South African Poultry Association brought an application to impose safeguard measures against frozen bone-in chicken portions imported from the European Union. The application is brought in terms of Article 16 of the Trade Development and Cooperation Agreement ("TDCA") between the European Union and South Africa. The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa ("ITAC") has initiated an inverstigation into whether safeguard measures are warranted.  As such, should the investigation into the imposition of safeguard measures find that safeguard measures are warranted, any safeguard measure imposed would only be against the European Union and not against any other World Trade Organisation ("WTO") member state.

The initiation notice was published on 19 February 2016 and interested parties must submit their information by no later than 20 days from 19 February.

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