French Fries Enter Trade Fray in Belgian Bid to Defend Potatoes

Belgium is crying foul after Colombia imposed trade restrictions on one of the European nation’s treasured commodities: French fries.

Didier Reynders, Belgium’s minister for foreign affairs, asked his European Union peers to investigate an anti-dumping duty Colombia instituted this month on the import of frozen french fried potatoes from several countries including Belgium, according to a copy of his request obtained by Bloomberg.