<div id="hn-headline">WTO backs China in US poultry case: Chinese media</div>
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<p>BEIJING — The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled in China's
favour in a dispute with the United States over imports of Chinese
chicken, state media reported Thursday.</p><p>China's commerce ministry
has received the final ruling from the WTO, which is expected to come
into effect soon and help open up the US market for China's finished
chicken breast exports, the China Daily said.</p><p>"It (the final
ruling) will be announced in one or two months, and the result is...
China wins," the report said, citing an unnamed source within the
ministry.</p><p>A ministry official confirmed to AFP that China had received the WTO ruling, but declined further comment.</p><p>Beijing
says Washington is breaching international trade rules through several
measures including an appropriations bill, which it says result in a
complete ban on imports of Chinese poultry.</p><p>The WTO set up a panel in July last year to examine the complaint following China's request.</p><p>China and the United States halted imports of each other's poultry in 2004 over fears about the spread of bird flu.</p>
<p>Imports
of some US poultry products to China have since been resumed but
Chinese officials have complained that the United States continues to
hold up reciprocal imports of Chinese poultry.</p><p>China and the
United States have been at loggerheads over a range of trade issues
including a spat over China's currency, which critics say is kept
undervalued by Beijing to give its exporters an unfair advantage.</p>
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