European imports, with their upmarket brand image, withstood the pressure until this summer, when Volkswagen had to offer reductions.
But they will harm European producers who have nothing to do with fruit, as well as American consumers, whose favourite European imports will suddenly become impossibly expensive.
Electronic gift certificates from online vendors such as Steam, GamersGate and GOG.com also make unique stocking stuffers, letting fans sample cutting-edge indie releases, revisit treasured classics or browse obscure European imports.
The European Union imports more than one million metric tons of U.S. wheat each year.
European luxury imports, which tend to be among the costliest (not to mention fussiest) models to maintain and repair, are predictably no-shows here.
Believe it or not, the European Union actually increased imports from China in May.
Too many U.S. oil refineries, too little demand for gasoline, and plentiful imports from European refiners have killed profitability.
In 2012, the United States was the fourth-largest source for Chinese imports, following the European Union, Japan, and South Korea.
However, there have been fears that increased imports from China have hurt European panel manufacturers.
BBC: China solar panel imports investigated by European Union
Shipments to the European Union dropped 14 percent, while imports rose 4.5 percent.
The idea is to show solidarity with hunters, on Canada's Atlantic and Arctic coasts, who are enraged at the European Union's recent ban on imports of seal products.
Russia has now banned imports of fresh vegetables from the European Union.
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Europe's media companies hate the special restrictions that apply to media firms, but they lobby passionately for the retention of quotas on European content, which protect the products from imports.
Lack of progress on the nuclear issue increased tension with the UN, US and European Union through 2011, and the European Union announced a ban on Iranian oil imports that came into force in July 2012.
On March 5, the European Commission ordered its member states to register imports of Chinese solar panels and their main components, an administrative step underscoring punitive duties to be applied retroactively if fault is found in the investigations.
Two of the men involved are officers of the organisation spearheading a campaign for a European-wide ban on Faroese and Icelandic mackerel imports.
Last September, the European Union also initiated an investigation into Chinese solar imports in what is seen as the largest anti-dumping probe ever carried out by the Union. (See: Suntech Power Faces The Heat From EU Anti-Dumping Investigation) The investigation is likely to be completed by the end of this year.
The sales of American-based affiliates of European multinationals are almost four times as big as American imports from Europe.
Six East European countries are entirely dependent on Russia for their natural gas imports.
Sir Leon has his work cut out too, since most governments in the European Union, notably France's, wrongly blame cheap imports for high unemployment.
European governments have encouraged this through subsidies, controls on Japanese imports, suspension of normal competition rules for car retailing and resistance to mass redundancies.
The World Trade Organisation has ruled that the EU must stop favouring banana imports from former colonies in the Caribbean - a decision European Commissioners have yet to implement.
Politicians will not dismantle the single market, but there is a lot they can do to meddle: doling out state aids, encouraging mergers and alliances to create national or European "champions", and taking an aggressive stance on foreign imports through things like anti-dumping complaints.
According to Indian government data announced earlier this month, Iran slipped to the seventh-largest supplier of crude oil to India for the first nine months of this financial year from third position after U.S. and European sanctions against Tehran forced India's refiners to cut their imports from the country.
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The gold market also sees bullish tailwinds from the weekend news that Iran has halted oil shipments to some European countries, to pre-empt an EU ban on Iranian oil imports.
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The gold market is also seeing underlying support from the recent news Iran has halted oil shipments to some European countries, to pre-empt an EU ban on Iranian oil imports.
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Although Europe's ban does keep out American imports and is partly motivated by a desire to protect inefficient European farmers, it is also a response to public fears about food safety.
The gold market is also catching some bullish tailwinds from the weekend news that Iran has halted oil shipments to some European countries, to pre-empt an EU ban on Iranian oil imports.
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"The investigation will determine whether the product under investigation originating in the country concerned is being dumped and whether the dumped imports have caused injury to the Union industry, " the European Commission said in a statement.
BBC: China solar panel imports investigated by European Union
The gold market saw stepped up safe-haven buying support from rising tensions in the Persian Gulf, following the recent news Iran has halted oil shipments to some European countries, to pre-empt an EU ban on Iranian oil imports.
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