The WTO will issue a resolution on Spanish olives in the coming weeks

“It is an issue that is currently in a WTO panel; we await the resolution in the coming weeks, "said Planas upon his arrival at the meeting of agriculture ministers held in Brussels. The Spanish minister responded this way when asked if he was going to directly ask the US Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, to eliminate the tariffs on Spanish black olives, during the videoconference that they are scheduled to hold with him during the Council this Monday . "The European Commission, at the request of Spain, appealed the issue and is in the WTO area," the minister recalled the same day that his cabinet colleague, the Minister of Industry, Reyes Maroto, began an official visit to the United States, in that the dispute over Spanish olives is among the issues to be discussed, in addition to trying to intensify transatlantic trade relations and the presence of Spanish companies in that country. Black table olives. Efeagro / Ginés Mena For Planas, "the challenges of the food sector are ...