22/02/2015
Imports are around 56,700 tonnes a year without customs duties
EU increases its imports of Tunisian olive oil
The European Commission has increased imports from Tunisian olive oil-free tariff quotas for the coming months to help the Tunisian producers to take advantage of a bumper season.
And the "economic " learned from the Tunisian trade mission in Geneva that the exact size of the import of Europe from the Tunisian olive oil for the months of February and March of this year has increased dramatically, and that the quotas for the coming months have been modified, but the share of the total for the entire importEurope of Tunisian olive oil for 2015 will remain unchanged.
Based on an agreement between the two sides, Tunisia will be able to export up to 56,700 tonnes of olive oil to the European trading bloc, which includes 28 countries each year without customs duties.
According to the agreement have been-sustaining size of the quota to be a thousand tons for each of the January monthly (January) and February; four thousand tons for the month of March, eight thousand tons for the month of April, and ten thousand tons per month of May (May) until October (October).Are deported quota is used in a given month to the next month, but the share dropped from consideration in the next month, and on this basis, increased the share of February this a thousand to nine thousand tons, and the share of March from four thousand to ninethousand tons, or the equivalent of four times the quota limits for two months (from five thousand to 18 thousand tons).
Quotas were determined for each month from April to (October) up to eight thousand tons, to keep bringing the total size of the quotas in 2015 up to 56,700 tons.
Olive oil occupies first place in the Tunisian agricultural exports to the European Union, and Tunisian olive sector employs, directly and indirectly, more than a million people, or the equivalent of about a fifth of the agricultural workforce Tunisian.
