The garlic sector asks Europe to end prices below China's cost

Published 2022년 5월 3일

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The garlic sector in Brussels has requested an end to 'dumping' from China and the control of fraudulent frozen garlic sales. Chinese garlic is sold as fresh at lower tariffs, despite being kept at -4ºC in containers. The sector is also conveying concerns about the removal of essential phytosanitary products for garlic cultivation in the EU. Additionally, the sector is working to identify garlic origin fraud and the development of the campaign is reported to be going well with an optimal harvest, unless it rains during harvesting.

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The garlic sector has asked Brussels to put an end to 'dumping' from China and control the frozen garlic that they bring "out of quota and with low tariffs" without actually being frozen since they come in containers at -4ºC and sell them as fresh garlic”. This was explained by the president of the Asaja Córdoba garlic sector and vice-president of the National Garlic Board, Miguel del Pino, who underlines that, in addition, "they are selling them below our cost, so we are trying to demonstrate to Brussels that this practice is 'Dumping' because it costs us close to 4 euros to freeze it and they are going down to one euro, so we want Brussels not to let them in”. This has been one of the issues discussed at a meeting in Toulouse (France) in a preparatory meeting for the next Joint Committee for Fruit and Vegetables to be held on May 31 in Lisbon (Portugal) and in which the ministries of Agriculture of Spain, Italy and France, which will transfer the conclusions of this meeting to ...

Source: Agroclm