Spain demands to eliminate tariffs of United States on olives and warns to call into question the legitimacy of the CAP

Published 2023년 1월 9일

Tridge summary

Gabriel Cabello, president of the table olive sector of Cooperativas Agroalimentarias de España and the Agrosevilla cooperative, has appealed to the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee to eliminate tariffs imposed by the US on Spanish black olives since 2018. These tariffs, which have significantly diminished Spanish olive exports and undermined the sector's profitability, have been deemed illegal by the World Trade Organization. Clara Aguilera, socialist spokesperson for the Agriculture Committee, concurs with this assessment, emphasizing that the tariffs undermine the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and could potentially extend to other EU sectors and countries if unaddressed.

Disclaimer:The above summary was generated by Tridge's proprietary AI model for informational purposes.

Original content

Gabriel Cabello, president of the table olive sector of Cooperativas Agroalimentarias de España and the Agrosevilla cooperative, (4,000 producer members and more than 80,000 tons of production), has intervened in the Agriculture Committee of the European Parliament to request the immediate elimination of tariffs imposed by the US since 2018. MEP Clara Aguilera, socialist spokesperson for the Agriculture Committee, has ratified this request, considering that these tariffs call into question the legitimacy of the CAP at an international level. In August 2018, the United States imposed tariffs of 35% on the importation of black olives from Spain as a result of a complaint from the California producing sector. These complaints accused the Spanish black olive industry of selling at a low cost and also considered that the CAP aid (such as income aid and young farmers) received by the sector represented dumping for the American market. . The US market is the main market worldwide with a ...

Source: Agroinformacion