With the stop to the safeguard clause on rice, rice arrivals from Myanmar increased by more than 20 times (+2400%) in 2022, a real invasion that weighs on Italian producers already severely affected by the drought and the increase in production costs. This is what Coldiretti claims on the basis of ISTAT data relating to foreign trade in the first eight months of the year, after the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union which annulled the regulation that had reintroduced duties on imports of Indica rice originating in Cambodia and Myanmar/Burma for a period of three years, also in the wake of the mobilization of Coldiretti's own farmers in the Italian squares and in the institutional fora that had led Brussels to recognise the economic damage due to the volumes of imports of Asian rice. “Indica rice produced in Cambodia and Myanmar - says Coldiretti - arrives on the EU market in volumes and price levels that cause serious difficulties for European operators in the sector.” In addition to unfair competition from Italian producers on Burma (former Myanmar), there is also the accusation of human rights violations and even "intentional genocide" for crimes committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority.