Asaja Alicante labels the tariff agreement with the U.S. as "catastrophic" and demands urgent compensations.

Asaja Alicante strongly rejects the new tariff agreement between the United States and the European Union, which comes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on August 7, 2025, imposing a 15% tariff on most European agri-food exports to the U.S. This pact, far from balancing trade, represents a direct attack on the competitiveness of the agricultural sector in Alicante, the main export engine of the Valencian Community, where agri-food sales to the U.S. reached 366 million euros in 2024, with Alicante contributing nearly 30% of this value in the fruit and vegetable sectors. The return of Donald Trump to the White House is already having a clearly negative impact on the European agricultural sector, and especially on the Spanish one, in a dual aspect. On the one hand, his strategy of prioritizing defense spending has forced the European Union to readjust its budgetary priorities. As a direct consequence, unprecedented cuts are expected in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) starting in 2027, ...