US FOOD EXPORTS IN FIRING LINE AS EU RELEASES RETALIATORY DUTY LIST OVER TRUMP METAL TARIFFS
March 1st, 2018
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a draft list of products that could be subject to retaliatory European Union (EU) safeguard duties, as a response to the erection of American import duties on aluminium and steel imports.
These include food products - sweetcorn, maize, kidney beans, rice (milled, semi-milled and broken), peanut butter, cranberries (and cranberry juice), and orange juice. Ingredients listed are lemon and orange oils, plus extracted oleoresins of liquorice and hops. And an important packaging input - steel cans.
The Commission has released the ...
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