In June 2011, the Southern African Poultry Association (SAPA) filed a complaint with the International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) of South Africa about the alleged dumping of Brazilian frozen chicken products in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa.
[2] Brazil said the South African Poultry Association had "grossly overstated" statistics on chicken imports and cited SA's "uncooperativeness" and "unreasonable attitude" as reasons to raise the dispute with the WTO.
[5] After negotiation with the Brazilian government, South African trade and industry minister Rob Davies declined to implement the ITAC recommendations.
[7] The South African Poultry Association was dissatisfied with this result, taking the position that to be effective, a general tariff would have to be imposed on all frozen chicken imports.
[8][9] However, this is not possible because of the EU-South African Trade and Development Cooperation Agreement, which states that no tariffs may be applied by South Africa to goods originating from the EU.