EU chicken traders submissions rejected by ITAC

ITAC, the International Trade Administration Commission, has just issued its letters to interested parties indicating whether their information would be taken into consideration in ITAC’s preliminary determination in the investigation relating to the alleged dumping of frozen bone-in chicken portions from Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. ITAC rejected the submissions made by all traders on the basis that they did not provide the cost information of their suppliers. This creates a dilemma for traders: the producers’ information is confidential, yet without this information the traders’ submissions will not be accepted. This leaves traders at the mercy of their suppliers, many of whom did not cooperate in the investigation. It is not yet clear whether traders that cooperated will be able to export products produced by cooperating producers.