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Article: COMMISSION WELCOMES US DECISION ON WHEAT GLUTEN QUOTA.(Brief Article)

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June 6, 2001
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The European Commission welcomed the decision by the United States on June 2 not to extend the wheat gluten quota. The Commission will not now renew the EU tariff on imports of US corn gluten feed, which was applied to rebalance for the lost trade resulting from the wheat gluten quota in the United States.European Agriculture and Fisheries Commissioner Franz Fischler greeted the decision, saying: "I am pleased that this trade irritant is now behind us. This is the second problem relating to an agricultural product which has been resolved (the first of course being bananas) within a few months. The alternative, a prolongation of the WTO-condemned measures, would have sent a ...

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