Spain asks Brussels to resort again to the WTO for the tariff on black olives from the USA

Published Mar 20, 2023

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Spain's Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, has announced plans to appeal to the European Commission to reactivate the recognition panel at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to challenge the United States' imposition of tariffs on Spanish black olives. This follows the WTO's ruling last November that these tariffs were found to be in violation of its rules. Additionally, Planas is seeking European Commission aid for the beekeeping sector and will support a crisis distillation for the wine sector. He also expressed concerns about the sugar beet sector and anticipated a favorable ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union on the fisheries agreement between the EU and Morocco. Meanwhile, Spain, along with France, Germany, and other EU countries, has opposed a proposal to ban trawling in all EU marine protected areas by 2030, citing concerns over the potential economic impact on the fishing sector.

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The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has advanced this Monday that he will urge the European Commission to resort again to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to reactivate the recognition panel on the situation of black olives so that The United States withdraws the tariffs that the Trump administration imposed on imports of this product of Spanish origin since 2018. The holder of the branch has manifested thus upon his arrival at a new meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries of the European Union. Although the Administration "came along at first" and accepted the WTO ruling declaring these tariffs illegal, this result has yet to be followed through. The WTO agreed, in its ruling last November, with the Spanish black olive producers and ruled that part of the tariffs applied by the United States to the export of this product to the North American market since 2018 (specifically the 15% imposed by the alleged illegal aid to the sector) fail to ...

Source: Diariodesevilla