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Democrats want to keep tariffs off EU olive oil

By Sean Higgins
Published August 21, 2019 8:48pm ET
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Democrats want to keep tariffs off EU olive oil
In this picture taken on, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, olive oil exporter Vasilis Tsaousis fills a bottle from a vat containing extra virgin olive oil, at his storage site near Pyrgos in southern Greece. Plans to extend a brutal efficiency drive to olive oil production in Greece have been met with anger and disbelief. | (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

Nineteen lawmakers wrote U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer Wednesday to demand that the U.S. ensure that olive oil imported from Europe remain tariff-free. The letter was signed by 14 Democrats and five republicans.

The lawmakers argued there was simply no alternative means to get the oil, and tariffs would badly hurt food and restaurant industries.

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