Potato processors: no dumping of fries

Dutch potato processors do not dump French fries in Australia and New Zealand. The hard figures do not give any reason to speak of dumping, says secretary Hylke Brunt of the Vavi, the potato processing association. The branch organizations Potatoes NZ in New Zealand and Ausveg in Australia have asked their governments to limit the import of French fries from Europe. They fear that European processors will be exporting cheap chips on a massive scale, because the EU's cold stores are full. The trade associations state that processors in Europe have plenty of cheap potatoes at their disposal. Disturbing signals that we take seriously Brunt disputes this. “If factories are already running, they run largely on contract potatoes and have a different price than the spot price market. The suggestion of the relevant sector organizations that we can dump chips through cheap potatoes is therefore unjustified. Without a factual basis, an anti-dumping duty is not justified. But these are ...