EU PUSHES MEXICO FOR RULES OF ORIGIN REFORM TO TRADE DEAL
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve changes to a 1997 trade and political cooperation deal with Mexico, so that European and Mexican unalloyed aluminium producers are better able to exploit its export opportunities. For this to be achieved, aluminium made in the EU or Mexico has to be officially considered as originating from these jurisdictions. However under the original treaty, said a European Commission note "the working or processing required for the acquisition of origin in a restrictive way, leaving out the most ...
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