RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: The U.S. has won a World Trade Organization decision on exporting chicken to China.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Harvest Public Media's Abbie Fentress Swanson reports on this latest volley in the export battle.</s>ABBIE FENTRESS SWANSON, BYLINE: Three years ago, China imposed tariffs on certain imported American chicken products - including chicken feet, which are considered a delicacy in China - because they were allegedly being sold for unfairly low prices. Following the tariffs, U.S. chicken exports to China declined by an estimated 80 percent.</s>ABBIE FENTRESS SWANSON, BYLINE: But a new World Trade Organization decision has found that through enacting these tariffs China violated international trade rules. The decision is welcome news to poultry processors, says Tyson spokesman Worth Sparkman.</s>WORTH SPARKMAN PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER, TYSON FOODS: It supports our view that these duties on chicken exports to China aren't justified.</s>ABBIE FENTRESS SWANSON, BYLINE: Jim Sumner of the USA Poultry and Egg Export Council says the ruling is monumental for the industry.</s>JIM SUMNER: This will lift that barrier and allow the U.S. chicken industry to once again access the largest market in the world.</s>ABBIE FENTRESS SWANSON, BYLINE: China could appeal the WTO decision.</s>ABBIE FENTRESS SWANSON, BYLINE: Last year, the Word Trade Organization ruled that China was unfairly imposing tariffs on certain steel products imported from the U.S. A decision on a trade spat between the two countries over automobile exports is pending.</s>ABBIE FENTRESS SWANSON, BYLINE: For NPR News, I'm Abbie Fentress Swanson in Columbia, Missouri.
The World Trade Organization has ruled in favor of the U.S. in a long-standing trade dispute over allegations China unfairly imposed anti-dumping tariffs that restricted American poultry exports. China could appeal the WTO decision.