EU FASHION INDUSTRY TO BENEFIT FROM ONCOMING EU-BOSNIA TRADE DEAL
May 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to swiftly approve a comprehensive trade agreement between the EU and Bosnia & Herzegovina, slashing duties on textile and clothing products. Bosnian import duties on EU-made T-shirts, dresses, pullovers; baby clothes; and wide range of other textile and clothing products will be phased out over five years. For leather and fur clothes and accessories they would vanish over three years.
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EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to swiftly approve a comprehensive trade agreement between the EU and Bosnia & Herzegovina, slashing duties on textile and clothing products. Bosnian import duties on EU-made T-shirts, dresses, pullovers; baby clothes; and wide range of other textile and clothing products will be phased out over five years. For leather and fur clothes and accessories they would vanish over three years.
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