Thread by @GeorgyBradders

"Last year, for example, it was well-documented how Spanish orange producers successfully lobbied for an increase in orange tariffs."

I think you mean inaccurately-documented. By yourselves.

The EU didn’t increase tariffs fivefold because of Spanish MEPs protests, quite the opposite in fact.

16% is longstanding seasonal winter tariff, 3.2% rest of year for third countries. IEA incorrectly claimed this jump was “new”. But all ACP countries except South Africa had 0% anyway, as LDCs.

And that MFN tariff on oranges which didn’t apply to other African exporters already on zero tariffs, gave leverage in EU’s trade deal with South Africa to reduce it to zero, it's easy to check.
trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/trade-tariff/c…

It makes you wonder what the @iealondon's motivation is in spinning an incorrect narrative, which, like the similarly debunked coffee example, is still referenced by politicians like Rees-Mogg, Dorries and countless others.

With IEA’s status as a “charitable institution for economic research and the *education of the public*”, I'd expect them to at least check the basic facts they base their policies on.