South Africa: Poultry and Products Annual
Post forecasts that South Africa’s chicken meat imports will increase marginally by 2 percent in 2019 to 525,000 tons. The recovery of the local chicken meat production after the avian influenza outbreak and lower feed costs will suppress the growth of imports. In 2017, the United States exported 82,300 tons of chicken meat to South Africa, a substantial increase of almost 250 percent from 2016 after a tariffrate quota was negotiated. However, U.S. exports of chicken meat to South Africa are not expected to increase substantially in 2018 and 2019, as no major upward movements in the current quota of 65,417 tons are expected.
