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Engineering News reports that Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies is adamant that government will not stand by while the country’s poultry industry is “decimated”. But he has also acknowledged that there are issues of industry competitiveness to be addressed.
Speaking this week during the Economic Sectors, Employment and Infrastructure Development Cluster briefing, Davies said the provisional safeguard duty introduced in December was in response to “abnormal” inflows of brown meat, which were undermining the domestic industry. He said: “Our overall objective, and we have said it very frankly to the EU, is that we are not going to see the local poultry industry decimated. We do acknowledge that there are issues of competitiveness that we have to address, and that’s why we have a task team in place. But we can’t allow the industry to be simply disappear as a result of this surge of imports, otherwise we won’t have an industry to raise the competitiveness of.” The task team was established in January with work-streams focusing on trade measures, health and quality issues, competitiveness, industry growth and transformation, as well as industrial financing, incentives and demand-side interventions.
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