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China stealing US Chicken Industry -- we're published in today's American Thinker
Howard Richman, 4/24/2014

Here is how it begins:

Last August, the U.S. won a WTO dispute about high Chinese chicken tariffs.  With U.S. corn prices low and Chinese consumers leery of eating Chinese-produced chicken due to outbreaks of Avian Flu in China, everything seemed set for a huge rise in U.S. poultry exports to China.  But that is not the case.

When the Chinese government is forced to take down tariffs, it simply puts up non-tariff barriers.  A 2010 Report to Congress on China's WTO Compliance published by the United States Trade Office explained why Chinese purchases of U.S. meat had been failing to grow despite growing consumption of meat by Chinese consumers:

To read it, go to:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/04/china_stealing_us_chicken_industry.html