Spanish black olive exports to the US have fallen by 68% in the last five years

Published 2023년 1월 10일

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The Spanish black olive industry has seen a significant decrease in exports to the US, a key market, with a 68% drop in volume over the past five years due to tariffs of 35% imposed by the US in 2018. These tariffs were imposed following complaints from the California producing sector about dumping and subsidies received by the Spanish sector. These tariffs have negatively affected the profitability of Spanish producers, particularly compared to their EU and third country counterparts. The president of the table olive sector of Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España and the Agrosevilla cooperative, Gabriel Cabello, has called for the immediate removal of these tariffs, stating they are illegal according to the WTO. The European Parliament's Agriculture Committee has supported this call for the removal of the tariffs and has requested special treatment for olives in the EU's promotion and trade policies.

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The US market is the main market worldwide with a lot of growth potential for Spanish black olives, but for the last five years Spanish exports of this product have fallen by 68% in volume, and therefore the Spanish sector has lost competitiveness. This has been pointed out by Gabriel Cabello, president of the table olive sector of Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España and of the cooperative Coo (4,000 producer partners and more than 80,000 tons of production), during his speech this Monday at the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee to request the immediate elimination of the tariffs imposed since 2018. In August 2018, the United States imposed tariffs of 35% on the importation of black olives from Spain as a result of a complaint from the California producing sector. These complaints accused the Spanish black olive industry of selling at a low cost and also considered that the CAP aid (such as income aid and young farmers) received by the sector represented dumping for ...

Source: Financialfood