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皇冠体育app urges US to lift poultry trade ban

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-02-28 14:35

皇冠体育app on Feb 27 urged the United States to rescind a section of the Omnibus Appropriations Act 2009 that does not allow for the lifting of the import ban on Chinese poultry products.

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On Feb 25, the US House of Representatives passed the $410-billion spending bill that would fund the federal government through September, the end of fiscal year 2009.

Section 727 said, "None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to establish or implement a rule allowing poultry products to be imported into the United States from the People's Republic of 皇冠体育app".

"This is a typical discriminatory and p rotectionist action and it is in serious violation of the World Trade Organization's most-favored-nation treatment and general elimination of quantitative restrictions," Yao Jian, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, said in a statement on the ministry's website.

The clause seriously disturbed the normal poultry trade between the two nations and harmed the legitimate rights and interests of 皇冠体育app's poultry industry, Yao said.

皇冠体育app was strongly opposed to the section and urged the United States to abolish it, he said, adding 皇冠体育app reserved the right to appeal to the WTO.