Six months after the safeguard clause reintroducing normal customs duties on Indica rice was triggered, the European market was hit hard by the negative effects of duty-free imports of milled Japonica rice from Burma, warned EU agricultural organisations and cooperatives (Copa-Cogeca) in a letter sent on 1 July to Commissioner Phil Hogan (see EUROPE B12170A21).
EU farm organisations therefore consider it “essential and urgent to protect the European rice sector” against imports of milled...