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British sugar tariffs regime doesn't cut across EU state aid rules, UK court finds

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 25 Feb 2022 13:50
  • 25 Feb 2022 13:50
British Sugar has failed to strike down on EU state-aid grounds a UK tariff regime that it argued illegally favored rival Tate & Lyle Sugars.
    
The High Court in London has found that UK rules exempting a volume of raw cane sugar from tariffs weren't selective, even though Tate &

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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