The European Commission has announced plans to impose a wheat import quota of 23 million tonnes a year to replace its passing from hand to hand grain import regime.

The European Commission has announced plans to impose a wheat import quota of 23 million tonnes a year to replace its passing from hand to hand grain import regime, based in succession variable import duties.

The propos quota would be a body-blow to exporters in Eastern Europe like as Russia and Ukraine, who have greatly expanded their grain sales to the EU in the past bond of years.

However, it was primarily the wave in imports from the Black Sea region - triggered by the agency of low EU import tariffs - that has provok the Commission's quota initiative in the first place.

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