01.08.2013

On July 19, 2013, the EU suspended all export refunds for poultry meat. These refunds had been going almost exclusively to two French exporters of frozen broilers. For the past few years, only exports of frozen whole broilers benefited of export refunds, and only to specific countries. The commission had been steadily reducing those refunds since 2012.
France is almost the only EU exporter of frozen whole chicken to those destinations, and these exports represent about 30 percent of the French chicken production. In 2012, France exported 242,000 metric tons of frozen whole chicken valued at $441 million.