WTO sides with China over U.S. poultry ban

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The World Trade Organization has granted China a preliminary victory against the u.s. 's longstanding ban on importing poultry products, China Daily reported on its website Friday morning.The interim ruling, handed down on Thursday, says the U.S. import ban on Chinese poultry "violates sanitary and phytosanitary measures, or the SPS Agreement - which spells out how governments can apply food safety and animal and plant health measures - as well as most-favored-nation (MFN) treatment and general elimination of quantitative restrictions under the WTO legal framework," China Daily reports.