EU: Zero duty returns for rice imports from Cambodia and Myanmar
Rice
Myanmar [Burma]
Cambodia
Published Jan 14, 2022
Tridge summary
From 18 January, barring surprises, the zero tariff for EU imports of indica rice from Cambodia and Burma / Myanmar will return. Ansa learns this from sources close to the dossier. 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 massive rice imports from the two Asian countries.
Original content
In the following years, the effect of the tariffs together with the disturbances in trade due to the pandemic would have brought the market situation back under control. According to reports from the Ente Risi, the president of the Cambodia Rice Federation, Song Saran, declared that in recent weeks he had found a greater demand for rice from EU countries following the imminent non-application of the safeguard clause on milled rice. Indica type of Cambodian and Burmese origin. Saran ...
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