Off duties for rice imported from Cambodia and Myanmar to EU
Rice
Myanmar [Burma]
Cambodia
Published Jan 14, 2022
Tridge summary
On January 17, the safeguard clause introduced three years ago for rice imported from Cambodia and Burma expires. comes the official. Duties on Cambodian and Burmese rice imported into the EU will be eliminated from January 18, 2022, because the safeguard clause for Italian producers expires on January 17.
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The safeguard clause introduced three years ago for rice imported from Cambodia and Burma expires on 17 January It is not a bolt from the blue, given that the president of the National Risi Paolo Carrà had already warned the sector at the end of November, but now it is official. Duties on Cambodian and Burmese rice imported into the EU will be eliminated from January 18, 2022, because the safeguard clause for Italian producers expires on January 17. Barring last-minute surprises, the zero tariff for EU rice imports will return indica from Cambodia and Burma / Myanmar. Brussels had activated the safeguard clause by reintroducing tariffs in 2019, for a period of three years. The decision was based on a complaint from Italian and Spanish producers, who had demonstrated the negative impact on the EU sector of the massive imports of rice from the two Asian countries. In the following years, the effect of the tariffs together with the disruption in ...
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