State growers cheer tariff decision on Spanish olives Existing U.S. antidumping and counter- vailing duties on Spanish ripe olives will re- main in place, the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined. Spain’s highly subsidized olives are sold into the U.S. at artificially low prices, flood- ing the U.S. market and undercutting do- mestic producers.
The two rulings extend the tariffs for another five years. The five-year “sunset review” is required under U.S. trade law. In a statement, Glenn County table ol- ive grower Michael Silveira, who serves as chairman of the Olive Growers Council of California, said the U.S. government and court systems have repeatedly confirmed that Spain continues to benefit from unfair European Union subsidies while dumping its ripe olives in the U.S. market.
“If it weren’t for the U.S. government’s ongoing (antidumping and countervail- ing) orders on Spanish olives, American table olive production and hundreds of family farmers and allied jobs would be in serious jeopardy,” he said. Since imposition of the duties, the EU has worked to overturn the orders by taking the case to the World Trade Organization. In the fall of 2021, the WTO ruled that the U.S. may maintain some countervail- ing duties on Spanish olives but said it needed to bring its measures in line with WTO tariff and trade rules. The Commerce Department responded last year by scaling back rates of the countervailing duties. The growers council said the tariffs al- low California table olive farmers time to reinvest in modern farming techniques. Musco Family Olive Co. in Tracy, one of two remaining major table olive proces- sors left in the state, has tried to help table olive growers transition to new plantings that can be mechanically harvested. California table olive bearing acreage in 2023 stood at 12,400, up from 12,000 in 2022.
In a five-year review, the commission voted unanimously last week to keep the tariffs, first imposed in 2018. It said revok- ing them would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury. California table olive growers praised the vote. For years, they have argued that
The commission’s vote comes after the U.S. Department of Commerce made a similar determination in late 2023. In that decision, the department said revoking the duties would lead to a recurrence of dumping margins as high as 25.5% and 13.9%, respectively.
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