AVA-ASAJA prevents the EU from overturning the automatic rice clause in the midst of a wave of Asian imports that sink the campaign in Spain

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Published Mar 18, 2024

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The Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-ASAJA) is advocating for the protection of rice producers' profitability against Asian imports. The organization has kept negotiations ongoing to include rice in the automatic safeguard clause regulations. It is also pushing for the reinstatement of tariffs on rice imports from Cambodia and Myanmar due to their impact on the European market. AVA-ASAJA has lodged a complaint against the ALDI distribution chain for alleged loss sales and criticized companies for not specifying the country of origin on rice labels.

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The Valencian rice farmers are on the warpath. The massive entry of imports from Asian countries through European ports, including those of Valencia and Sagunt, have sunk the campaign. While after the harvest the market was characterized by a short supply, fluid demand and stable prices at origin, since the arrival in recent weeks of massive foreign shipments by large rice importing and marketing corporations, sales of The Valencian stocks that are still waiting in the warehouses have been paralyzed. In this context, the Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-ASAJA), through its national organization ASAJA and COPA-COGECA, an entity that brings together the main agricultural professional organizations and cooperatives of the European Union (EU), has led this week the efforts on behalf of the rice sector aimed at safeguarding the profitability of producers against the wave of Asian imports. The representative of AVA-ASAJA and vice president of the COPA-COGECA Rice working group, ...

Source: Agrodigital