BELARUS GETS EXPANDED EU ACCESS, DESPITE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
January 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union (EU) clothing and textile buyers have been offered more cheap products from China and human-rights pariah Belarus upon Romania and Bulgaria's January 1 accession to the European Union (EU), because of world trade law guarantees. These incoming member states have long-standing trade relations with China and Belarus, whose clothing exports to the EU are quota limited (partially and temporarily for Beijing). Under World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules, upon joining the EU, Sofia and Bucharest's import quotas were transferred to the ...
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