Ministers’ statement on joining the fight to support B.C.’s blueberry farmers

Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Dec-31 Thu 05:00

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020JERI0068-002151

2020-Dec-31 Thu 05:00

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Ravi Kahlon, Minister of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation, and Lana Popham, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, have issued the following statement in response to the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) global safeguard investigations into the imports of blueberries.

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Ministers’ statement on joining the fight to support B.C.’s blueberry farmers

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