National Ag News

The Dried Tart Cherry Trade
Committee has filed an anti-dumping and countervailing case with the
International Trade Commission to help level the playing field with Turkey.

Mollie Woods with the Cherry Industry Administrative Board tells Brownfield Turkey’s duty-free access for tart cherry juice concentrate finally ended last year, but growers still suffer from strong import competition. “We are carrying some inventories that I don’t think we’d be carrying if it weren’t for imports and unfair trade.”

Petitioners from
Michigan-based Graceland Fruit, Inc., Shoreline Fruit, LLC, Smeltzer Orchard
Co.

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