Mexico                                   

Mexico                                                                                         

USMEF, NPPC And AMI File Brief In Antidumping Case

USMEF, AMI and NPPC today filed a brief with the Mexican Secretaria de Economia opposing the Mexican government’s self-initiated antidumping case against U.S. pork hams and shoulders.  Individual private companies also filed briefs challenging the dumping provisions of the case.

The coalition of associations based their challenge on several factors, including the fact that the required “special circumstances” defined in Article IV of the General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade (GATT) do not exist to allow the Mexican government to bring this case against the U.S. industry.  In addition, the coalition argued that there is no causational link between imports from the U.S. and the injury allegedly experienced by Mexican hog producers, and that hog producers do not produce a “like product” to the imports challenged in the antidumping case.  That is, farmers are producing hogs, not pork.

Mexico                                                                                         

USMEF, NPPC And AMI File Brief In Antidumping Case

USMEF, AMI and NPPC today filed a brief with the Mexican Secretaria de Economia opposing the Mexican government’s self-initiated antidumping case against U.S. pork hams and shoulders.  Individual private companies also filed briefs challenging the dumping provisions of the case.

The coalition of associations based their challenge on several factors, including the fact that the required “special circumstances” defined in Article IV of the General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade (GATT) do not exist to allow the Mexican government to bring this case against the U.S. industry.  In addition, the coalition argued that there is no causational link between imports from the U.S. and the injury allegedly experienced by Mexican hog producers, and that hog producers do not produce a “like product” to the imports challenged in the antidumping case.  That is, farmers are producing hogs, not pork.