Head to the grocery store in the US and the shelves are stocked with jars of St Dalfour strawberry spread and Bonne Maman raspberry preserves – some of the more than $200 million (£154m) in jams that Europe sends to the US each year.

But try looking for American-made jelly in Europe, and you’re likely to come up short.

The US exports less than $300,000 (£231,000) in jam each year to the bloc.

It’s an imbalance that US company JM Smucker, one of the biggest sellers of such products in the US, blames on a 24%-plus import tax its fruit spreads face in the EU.

Apple farmers raised the big disparity in import duties their fruit faces in countries such as India (50%), Thailand (40%) and Brazil (10%), as well as sanitary rules in countries such as Australia they said unfairly block their exports.

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