US to ‘very aggressively’ fight EU on olives

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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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