More and more sweet corn from China enters Spain, creating unfair competition

Since 2019, Spain has been importing more and more sweet corn. This increase has been very significant in the last two years, and especially from China. The imports have gone from 34,044 t in 20219 to 47,378.2 t in 2022, which represents an increase of 39%, according to ICEX data. Most of these imports are canned sweet corn, since, in the last 4 years, only around 1.5% were frozen sweet corn. The Association of Agro-Food Industries of Navarra, La Rioja and Aragon (ALINAR), the Union of Farmers and Ranchers of Navarra (UAGN) and the Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of Navarra (UCAN) warn of these growing imports from third countries, which constitute unfair competition since they do not have to comply with all the health, environmental or quality regulations, which are required of farmers in the European Union. Sweet corn from Thailand The three organisations value the positive effect that the anti-dumping measures imposed by the EU on Thailand have had on containing the amount ...