The European Commission has unveiled details of its plans to impose temporary safeguard duties, especially on salmon imports from Norway and the Faroe Islands.
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It has told the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that it intends to levy €522 (US$631.7) on every tonne of unfilleted fish and €722 per tonne of filleted salmon that enters the European Union (EU) over certain fixed quotas for the next six months. These are 163,997 tonnes (of filleted and unfilleted salmon) for Norwegian exporters, 22,230 for Faroese producers and 20,108 for other jurisdictions.
The duties would apply from this month until next February. Brussels said it needed to deal with a serious oversupply problem from Norway, in particular.
