BRUSSELS COMPLAINS OF AMERICAN TRADE RESTRICTIONS ON EU COSMETICS EXPORTS
August 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a report highlighting American trade barriers that impede European Union (EU) cosmetics exports to the USA. Brussels and Washington have been discussing outstanding tariff and red-tape problems through a Transatlantic Economic Council. But a new Commission-published US Barriers to Trade and Investment Report for 2008 stressed "trade barriers and differences that hinder trade and investment." On cosmetics, Brussels complained notably about the continued failure to agree one International Nomenclature ...
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