Moroccan tomato imports disappear from EU statistics while arriving completely normally

The Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Agricultores y Ganaderos (COAG) has denounced an unprecedented situation in the control of European borders: imports of tomatoes from Morocco and Western Sahara have literally disappeared from the official statistics of the European Commission, despite the shipments continuing to arrive in the community markets with absolute normality. In the current campaign, the figures for imports from these origins have stopped being updated on the website of the Directorate-General for Agriculture of the European Commission, which only indicates that these figures are far below the usual levels: However, the reality of the market completely contradicts these data: given the significant presence of tomatoes from Morocco and Western Sahara in the European market in recent campaigns, a withdrawal of this magnitude as shown by the European figures would have meant a noticeable increase in prices in the markets, something that has not occurred. Hansen ...