AGRICULTURE NEWS - These anti-dumping duties fell away in January, but were reintroduced yesterday after the International Trade and Administration Commission (ITAC) found that frozen potato chip imports from these countries were undercutting and harming the local industry by selling the product below their domestic market values or their average cost of production.

Wolfe Braude, Agbiz Fruit general manager, said in a press statement that European exporters gave up trying to deny they were dumping frozen potato chips in South Africa half-way through the ITAC investigation, and then focused on a defence that their illegal behavior helped to lower prices for consumers eating fast foods.

“If this logic was sound, then the next iteration in this argument would be to condone other illegal actions that lower prices for consumers,” he said.

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