'American farmers can compete with anyone anywhere, but they will lose ground unless, as in olives, trade tools critical to defending American agriculture are upheld and preserved.' -RepLaMalfa
ripe olives. It is an important case with broad policy implications on Europe’s protectionist farm policies, effective U.S. trade enforcement tools, and the American-produced food supply chain.
The case has shone an important light, too, on unfair EU farm policies. For decades, Europe has been thwarting U.S. efforts to challenge its unfair farm subsidy schemes and other protectionist agricultural policies. Its years of evasion have enabled the European Union to build a staggering $24 billion farm trade surplus with the United States. When the olive case was filed, it became a test case, the first of its kind to challenge the subsidy elements of these unfair EU practices.
The olive case serves American agriculture in another vital respect. To try to stop the olive case, Europe has challenged the olive tariffs in the World Trade Organization. While the WTO ruling provided a legal pathway for continuing the olive tariffs, it took issue with a U.S. trade statute that has been on the books for three decades to ensure that U.S. trade laws effectively address foreign agricultural subsidies. The U.S.
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