US to ‘very aggressively’ fight EU on olives

Published January 29, 2019 10:31pm ET



The European Union and the U.S. will duke it out over olives.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Tuesday that the government would “very aggressively” fight the European Union over whether it can apply tariffs to olive imports. The U.S. has claimed the Europe is “dumping” its olives in the states, hurting domestic growers.

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