INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – CAOBISCO APPEALS TO BRUSSELS AND WASHINGTON TO END FOOD TARIFF WAR OVER AVIATION SUBSIDIES
November 2nd, 2020
EUROPE’S confectionery and sweet bakery association CAOBISCO has been pressuring the European Union (EU) to resolve a long-running trade dispute with the USA over aircraft manufacturing subsidies causing Washington to impose tariffs on European food exports. These include 25% duties on exports from the EU (including the UK) of raspberry, strawberry, apricot, peach and other jams; cherries and peaches; sweet biscuits from Germany; waffles and wafers from Britain and Germany; and an additional 25% on these jams when exported from Germany and France. Earlier ...
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