According to a Financial Times report, the European Union is preparing to impose tariffs on grain imports from Russia and Belarus.
This move comes in response to the pressure exerted by farmers and some member states, who ask for the protection of European agricultural production.
The EEuropean Commission is expected to announce in the coming days the imposition of a 95-euro per tonne tariff on grain from Russia and Belarus, the paper said, adding that it also plans to impose 50% tariffs on oilseeds and products produced by processing them.
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Farmers across the European Union are calling for restrictions imposed on them under the Green Deal to tackle climate change to be eased and for tariffs to be reimposed on imported agricultural products. Ukrainian. These tariffs were lifted when the Russian army invaded Ukrainian territory in February 2022.
Farmers in neighboring countries, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia – all three are EU member states – stress that this decision has dealt them a heavy blow, as it has pushed the prices of their products down.
According to iefimerida, the prime minister of Poland Donald Tuskwhere mass agricultural mobilizations have been taking place in recent days, similar to those in the rest of the EU, has proposed to ban the import of agricultural products from Russia and Belarus.
Imports of the products to be targeted reached 4 million tonnes in 2023, or about 1% of total EU consumption, a record amount, according to the Financial Times report.
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