Spain: Andalusia asks in the Consultative active diplomacy of the EU in defense of the black olive against the US

Published 2022년 10월 14일

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Spain's Minister of Agriculture, Carmen Crespo, has called for the European Union to protect black olives from unfair US tariffs, which are causing over 150 million euros in losses to the Andalusian sector. She also urged the EU to make the Transformation and Resilience Plan's aid lines more flexible and to consider special aid to address water shortages faced by Andalusian farmers. Additionally, she requested a reduction in sector taxes and changes to the Common Agricultural Policy's eco-schemes. The Minister also sought support for an increase in bluefin tuna fishing possibilities and expressed concerns about potential swordfish cuts, threatening the Mediterranean fishing sector.

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SEVILLE, Oct. 14 (EUROPA PRESS) - The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Carmen Crespo, has requested this Friday that an "active diplomacy" be established by the European Union (EU) for the defense of the black olive before the last sentence of the Court of International Trade of the United States in order to be able to eliminate "the unfair tariffs that are causing losses of more than 150 million euros to this Andalusian sector." This has been requested during his participation, electronically together with the rest of his counterparts, in the Sectoral Conference and the Advisory Councils on Agricultural and Fisheries Policy for Community Affairs. Similarly, Crespo has taken advantage of his speech to present to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the "need to make the aid lines of the Transformation and Resilience Plan more flexible so that they are more logical and accessible for the agricultural sector". At the same time, it has once ...

Source: europapress