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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12290

6 July 2019
SECTORAL POLICIES / Agriculture
EU producers ask to be protected against imports of Japonica rice from Burma
Brussels, 05/07/2019 (Agence Europe)

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...

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