Moroccan tomato exports under fire from Eurasian Union

Published 2020년 8월 21일

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The article highlights a dispute between Morocco and the Eurasian Economic Union, particularly Russia, over the pricing and fair competition of Moroccan tomatoes. As the fourth largest tomato exporter in the world in 2019, Morocco has been providing cheaper and high-quality tomatoes to the Russian market, leading to concerns from the Eurasian Union of Tomato Exporters. They argue that Moroccan tomatoes are unfairly competing with their own due to lower cultivation costs in Morocco and greater energy usage in the Union, resulting in higher costs. The Union is urging Russia to either cease or significantly reduce tomato imports from both Morocco and Turkey for two months.

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The Moroccan pricing for tomatoes does not go well with some countries of the Eurasian Economic Union. Various members are therefore putting pressure on Russia to stop tomato imports from the North African country. Morocco was the fourth largest tomato exporter in the world in 2019 with 588,000 tonnes, an increase of 17.3 tonnes compared to a year earlier. Morocco is ahead of Belgium, France and Turkey and has only been passed by Mexico, the Netherlands and Spain. According to an article on northafricapost.com, the Eurasian Union of Tomato Exporters is complaining about what it sees as unfair competition from Moroccan tomatoes that are better quality and cheaper despite the distance. The fruit and vegetable organizations within the Union, which includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia, claim that the prices of Moroccan tomatoes on the Russian market are almost equal to the costs of cultivation within the Union. The better weather ...

Source: AGF