BEIJING — China said Friday it would slap stiff penalties on a variety of US chicken meat it says is being sold at an unfairly low price, in the latest move sure to increase the pressure on strained Sino-US relations.
The commerce ministry, in a preliminary ruling, said importers of US broiler chicken in China would have to pay deposits based on the difference — up to 105.4 percent — between the meat’s normal value and the alleged cut price.
“Broiler products imported from the United States were dumped (in China) and the domestic broiler sector has suffered material damages” as a result, the ministry said in a statement on its website.
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