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Pressure is growing on U.S. President Barack Obama from Americans at home and abroad to scrap a planned 300 percent duty hike on Roquefort cheese that many say is embarrassing for their country’s image.
The duty, raised by Obama’s predecessor George W. Bush as part of a raft of taxes in retaliation to a European Union [...]

America’s imposition of a massive cheese tax on French Roquefort has been delayed to allow time to seek a solution to an escalating trade war.
The hike of import duties on the pungent cheese was to be imposed in March in retaliation for an E.U. ban on American beef containing hormones, but officials say this will [...]

France’s pungent Roquefort cheese is at the centre of a trade row with the United States that is seen as George W. Bush’s last snub to the country that was one of sharpest critics of his invasion of Iraq.