Common Contracts

EU and US sign important agreement for citrus fruit

Import Agreement • May 11th, 2017

• Contract Type
  Import Agreement
• Filed
  May 11th, 2017

The US Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, and the acting US Trade Representative, Stephen Vaughn, said on Wednesday that the European Union (EU) had changed the requirements to import US citrus. Specifically, the EU has reduced its requirement to inspect US citrus plantations for citrus canker, which facilitates the entry of US citrus into the EU market allowing farmers to save millions of dollars in production costs.