Ahead of the lifting of quantitative trade restrictions, due in April of this year, representatives from India’s poultry industry have expressed concern over the potential of excess stocks on the market.
The industry is worried that exporters from the US and other developed countries will flood the domestic market with low-quality chicken legs and eggs, and is urging the government to hike import tariffs to the bound level of 130% on poultry products.
From the National Egg Coordination Committee, Anuradha Desai revealed that chicken legs and wings are often exported at low process because demand for these parts in US and Europe was low. As such there is a high probability that the Indian market will be flooded.
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