Calvo Group first to export tuna from El Salvador under EU agreement

Spanish canning giant, The Calvo Group, is set to be the first company to export tuna from El Salvador under the ‘Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union (EU)’.

El Salvador’s deputy minister of foreign trade, Mario Hernandez, told local reporters that the first shipment of tuna is 160 metric tons, which will enter the EU under a “zero tariff” agreement.

“Yesterday I signed the first export licenses under quotas of products covered in the Association Agreement, in the case of tuna,” Hernandez told the paper El Diario.

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