SPAIN, 2019
Olive oil producers marched to the Agriculture Ministry in Madrid, Spain on October 10, 2019, to denounce low prices of olive oil and against the 25 percent tariff that Spanish olives and olive oil will face in the US. The banner reads 'fair prices for a living olive grove'. The US is the world’s biggest consumer of olive oil outside of the EU, and consumes it to the tune of around 320,000 tonnes annually, according to Asoliva, the Spanish association of olive oil exporters. Of that, 120,000 tonnes or 37 percent comes from Spain.