The spokesperson for the Consell, Miguel Barrachina, has informed that the Departments of Commerce and Agriculture have requested from the Government, in a joint report
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, that it activate the safeguard clauses of the international treaty with South Africa, which affects Valencian citrus fruits. "Due to the entry of citrus fruits from South Africa, which have caused provinces such as Castellón to see a 24% reduction in their exports, we have demanded from the Government that it fulfill its obligation and invoke the safeguard clauses permitted by the trade agreement with South Africa," explained Barrachina. In the press conference following the plenary session of the Consell, he stressed that they have written to the Ministry to "come out of its torpor, abandon its negligence, and defend our farmers." "All agreements have safeguard clauses to defend our farmers, but the best of international treaties, in the hands of Pedro Sánchez, will always be a bad international treaty because it does not defend the farmers," he added. The commerce conseller, Marián Cano, and he, as the agriculture conseller, request in the joint letter "the activation of the ...