China says they win WTO poultry dispute with U.S.

Chinese state media says the World Trade Organization has ruled in China’s favor in a dispute over chicken exports to the United States. China Daily says Beijing has received word from the WTO that the ruling will be announced in one or two months opening the U.S. market to Chinese finished chicken breasts.

The two countries halted imports of each other’s chicken in 2004 in the midst of the avian influenza outbreak. China has reopened their borders to some U.S. chicken imports but complained to the WTO that the U.S. has not reciprocated.