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 Barriers
and conditions
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Trade and production barriers: importers'
new tariff rate and Thai exports facing Australian restricted
requirement.
• Thailand
still cannot export to the US
Government
support and policy 
World
Broiler Meat Trade Forecast, Outlook and Situation for 2003
•Total 2003 broiler meat exports by major exporting
countries are forecast to return to record levels of 5.6 million
tons.
Trend
and outlook
• General view of 2003 chicken trends
Thai
Production, Consumption and Marketing
• Production; total broiler meat production in 2003 is
forecast to grow by 4-5 percent from 2002, when there was
a trade row with the EU over chicken meat exports.
• Consumption and marketing; consumption is forecast
to increase further in 2003.
Beneficial
news and researches
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Stricter measures for chicken meat exports after discovery
of chemical residues.
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Electrical stimulation of chicken carcass makes meat tenderer.
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Development and Research; determining when the broilers breeder
female is most sensitive to overfeeding.
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Measuring what chickens Chug-a-Lug.
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Newly discovered and sequenced disease causing turkey virus.
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