EU: Coldiretti, Parliament blocks trilogue and invasion of Asian rice with safeguard clause in Italy
Rice
Italy
Regulation & Compliances
Published Mar 15, 2024
Tridge summary
Italian agricultural organizations Coldiretti and Filiera Italia have successfully defended a safeguard clause that protects Italian rice from zero-duty imports, particularly from Asia. The clause, part of the new General Preference System (SPG) regulation, is activated if imports from a country exceed a certain quantity, preventing dumping that could harm European farmers. Over 60% of rice imported into Italy is at a reduced duty. The clause is crucial for protecting the Italian rice production chain, which involves over ten thousand families, and ensuring consumers are not exposed to products with lower environmental and quality standards.
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Original content
Maintaining the automatic safeguard clause to protect Italian rice desired by the EU Parliament is important after the last campaign saw a real invasion of zero-duty Asian products, with imports from Cambodia even doubling (+ 104%). This is what Coldiretti and Filiera Italia say after having thwarted the attempt by the Belgian presidency to remove the mechanism for the protection of national productions as part of the new regulation on the General Preference System (SPG), the measures that aim to encourage the economic growth of Developing countries by encouraging zero-duty imports. At the center of the dispute was, in particular, article 29 of the provision which, according to the proposal of the EU Commission and Parliament, provides for the automatic activation of a safeguard clause if imports from a country exceed a threshold in terms of quantity , avoiding what would be real dumping to the detriment of European farmers, with uncontrolled arrivals of foreign products without ...
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