European food processors using cheap imported soft fruit and cherries are facing an attack on these ingredient supplies from the European Parliament.
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MEPs have called for the European Commission to introduce unusual protective duties levied where “environmental and social standards in their production [are not] corresponding to those of the European Union.”
A duty would be imposed “to protect European producers against dumping”, with this revenue financing “rural development projects in the exporting countries concerned”. More positively – for manufacturers – MEPs also called for EU-produced “soft fruits such as strawberries, currants, raspberries, gooseberries, sour cherries and sweet cherries” to benefit from “processing aid”.
