EU says poultry spat with U. S. too hard to fix

A promise by the European Commission to lift an 11-year-old ban on U. S. poultry imports has proven too hard to fulfil and it was probably unwise to try, a top EU official said Oct. 18. “It is a very, very contaminated political area,” EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen said, referring to resistance in European

EU restores import tariffs on cereals

“We have now seen, since February of this year, a strong drop in prices below the level that we had actually expected.” – Mariann Fischer Boel The European Union agreed Oct. 16 to restore import tariffs on all cereals due to recent price slides in internal wheat and other key grain markets, the European Commission


Cuba faces food shortages after hurricanes

Cuban markets offered a dwindling selection of food and a growing expanse of empty shelves Oct. 1 as food shortages the government warned about after hurricanes Gustav and Ike became increasingly evident. Shortages were exacerbated in the Cuban capital when shipments from food suppliers slowed in a conflict with the government over newly imposed price