On Monday 23 September, the Italian Minister for Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, unsuccessfully requested that the European Commission add rice imported from certain South-East Asian countries to the list of products covered by automatic safeguard clauses.
“During the last marketing year, 450,000 tonnes of milled rice were imported at zero duty from Cambodia and Myanmar”, the Italian minister warned during the Agriculture Council.
In a note (https://aeur.eu/f/dk7) supported by...