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Greece Asks for Exemption From U.S. Tariffs on E.U. Products

By Costas Vasilopoulos
Aug. 5, 2019 13:23 UTC

During a meet­ing with the American Ambassador to Athens, Geoffrey Pyatt, the Greek Minister of Agricultural Development and Food, Makis Voridis, requested that Greece be excluded from poten­tial tar­iffs imposed on agri­cul­tural prod­ucts imported in the US from the European Union as retal­i­a­tion to EU sub­si­dies to Airbus.

Voridis said that the close rela­tions Greece and the United States have devel­oped in the con­text of the strate­gic dia­logue jus­tify the exemp­tion.

He also spec­i­fied that mainly the small pro­duc­ers of Greece would be affected by the tar­iffs.

This is a trade war that does not relate to Greece,” he stated. On the con­trary, the pos­si­bil­ity of tar­iffs on farm prod­ucts of Greek inter­est — such as olive oil, table olives, fruit pre­serves and frozen cher­ries — will harm the income of a large num­ber of small-scale pro­duc­ers.”

There was no offi­cial response from Ambassador Pyatt to the min­is­ter’s request. The two also dis­cussed the col­lab­o­ra­tion of Rutgers University of New Jersey with the American Farm School of Thessaloniki and the Agricultural University of Athens on agri­cul­ture for young farm­ers and alter­na­tive tourism train­ing pro­grams.





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