Spain: The sea industry complex demands measures to increase its competitiveness after a complicated exercise

Seafood

Spain

Regulation & Compliances

Published Feb 19, 2024

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Anfaco-Cecopesca, a representative of the sea-industry complex, is calling for administrative measures to boost the sector's competitiveness amid inflationary impacts. The demands include a review of free trade agreements, harmonization of import controls, cessation of 'green taxes', and a list of factories authorized to export to the EU. The sector also seeks to promote seafood consumption and activate mechanisms for an effective Perte Mar-Industria. Anfaco also emphasizes the need to curb global instability and stimulate domestic consumption through promotional campaigns or VAT reductions to maintain the stabilization and sustainability achieved through internal adjustments.

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The sea-industry complex, represented by Anfaco-Cecopesca, joins the demands of the rest of the sectors of the agri-food industry and demands from the administrations measures that guarantee the competitiveness of the sector in a particularly complicated context for the sea industry. Among these is the paralysis "of free trade agreements that seriously harm the Spanish industry", pointing to the one signed with Vietnam, which allows it to export up to 11,500 t of canned tuna to the EU tariff-free. Also on the table is the current status of the negotiations of the trade agreement with Thailand, the world's leading producer of canned tuna, a product that has not yet been left out of the negotiations. “Mechanisms for reviewing agreements already signed must be activated in the event of evidence of non-compliance, avoiding periods of long years that seriously damage European competitiveness and industrial production. All of this, ensuring the supply of the industry in a balanced way, ...

Source: Alimarket