date:Nov 09, 2018
The Italian government has asked the European Commission to employ the safeguard clause on rice imports from Cambodia and Myanmar in order to protect Italian rice growers.
However, Luca Bertoletti, European Affairs Manager of the Consumer Choice Centre, criticised the request and said that its time the European Union stopped pushing forward protectionism.
The reasoning behind trade barriers is to protect a specific industry in this case Italian rice growers from competition, he said.
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