BELARUS QUOTA
January 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BELARUS will - with North Korea - remain the only country in the world whose textile exports to the European Union (EU) are restricted by quotas, under a temporary 2005 agreement awaiting a rubber-stamp from EU ministers. It leaves Belarus apart from the quota-free trade introduced worldwide on January 1, as Belarus is not a World Trade Organisation member. The EU might have been more generous, but for Belarus' repressive politics. "In view of the political situation....the proposed agreement is restrictive", said the European Commission.
BELARUS will - with North Korea - remain the only country in the world whose textile exports to the European Union (EU) are restricted by quotas, under a temporary 2005 agreement awaiting a rubber-stamp from EU ministers. It leaves Belarus apart from the quota-free trade introduced worldwide on January 1, as Belarus is not a World Trade Organisation member. The EU might have been more generous, but for Belarus' repressive politics. "In view of the political situation....the proposed agreement is restrictive", said the European Commission.
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