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Article: US lawmaker wants Roquefort duty lifted
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- March 9, 2009
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The tripling of import duties on French Roquefort cheese is mean, unproductive and should be removed or reduced, a Minnesota congressman said in a letter to President Barack Obama.
Rep. James Oberstar, a Democrat like Obama, said the move would be "a very noble gesture" toward re-establishing America's moral authority and would be received well in France, where people "enthusiastically followed your campaign and the early stages of your administration."
The former Bush administration slapped sanctions on dozens of European foods in January as part of a larger 13-year trade fight between the European Union and Washington over beef treated with hormones. ...