On Wednesday 21 February, the EU's agricultural organisations and cooperatives (Copa-Cogeca) called on the United States to definitively abolish countervailing duties on Spanish black olives. Copa-Cogeca was reacting to the ruling by the World Trade Organization (WTO) confirming that Washington was still breaching the rules by imposing countervailing duties on Spanish olives (see EUROPE B13354A15).
“In addition to the substantial damage to the Spanish black olive sector, these tariffs...