The EU has confirmed it will suspend two duties on cereals used by the EU meat industry to ease rising input costs. 

The EUR12 (US$16.32) per tonne duties charged on an import quota of 2.9m tonnes of low and medium soft wheat will be removed until 1 July – as will EUR16 per tonne duties on an import quota of 306,000 tonnes for feed barley. These duty free quotas will be available to all exporters worldwide. 

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Speaking the EU’s agriculture management committee backed the suspension, EU agriculture commissioner Dacian Ciolos said: “While prices remain high…we have an obligation…to help ease the situation.”

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