Greek producers of table olives and packaged olive oil are on alert following a recent U.S. decision to impose a 20% tariff on all imports from the European Union, a move that threatens a key export market for the country’s agrifood sector.

Tariffs are a weapon and a tool for exercising policy, and in this capacity, US President Donald Trump's move to impose a tariff of only 10% on products from Turkey and Egypt significantly changes the terms of a "silent war" that has been waged in recent years on American soil. And this concerns the shares in two product categories that Greece has been trying to "build" a better presence in recent years, olives and olive oil. Hence the obvious concern of people throughout the supply chain about the developments during a conference organized yesterday by the company Soybean Mills for the edible oil markets!

Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health in the United States, in collaboration with researchers from the Department of Cardiology at Yale School of Medicine, have announced that they are undertaking a new research project on the health benefits associated with daily consumption of table olives.