The Department of Livestock will probe into whether US chicken thighs sold at 20,000 VND (0.92 USD) per kilogramme in Viet Nam can be considered dumping and if there is trade fraud in this case, said Deputy Director of the department Nguyen Van Trong.

Frozen chicken meat. (Photo: Reuters)

Trong said at a press conference on August 5 that the livestock associations of the Southeast region and Dong Nai Province filed petitions for an anti-dumping investigation into frozen chicken thighs from the US.

Most imported chicken thighs in Viet Nam currently hail from the US, he said, noting that the products are sold in the US at between 3-3.5 USD (65,000-75,000 VND) per kilo.

The fact that US chicken thighs are priced at 20,000 VND per kg in Viet Nam is quite surprising, he said, adding that products near their expiry dates are usually cheap in the US and Vietnamese agencies need to examine the quality of US-origin imports.

If companies imported cheap frozen thighs and labelled false expiry dates, it is trade fraud, he noted.

(Source: VNA)