The European farmers’ and agri-cooperatives organisations Copa and Cogeca said on Tuesday 25 July that they had written to the European Commission protesting about United States’ plans to impose anti-dumping measures on imports of Spanish black table olives.
In a press release, Copa and Cogeca Secretary General Pekka Pesonen urged the Commission to take the matter seriously as any such action would put thousands of jobs in Spain in jeopardy and deepen the economic crisis there. Pesonen...