TRUFFLE WARS
February 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE AND KEITH NUTHALL
NOT your typical activist group, European truffle producers have formed an alliance to promote a settlement of the long running dispute between the European Union (EU) and the United States over a ban on American imports of hormone treated beef. Washington is threatening to load retaliatory duties on European truffle exports, which makes EU producers fear their US market share for sales of this expensive delicacy may be lost to much cheaper American and Chinese truffles. EU producers dismiss these rivals as fraudulent imitations, ...
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