CENTRAL ASIA DEALS
November 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to extend until December 2004 four existing textile trade deals agreed between the EU and the central Asian republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikstan and Turkmenistan. The agreements were due to expire at the end of this year and their extension would enable these ex-USSR republics to continue benefiting from wide textile import quota access to EU markets. Whether the separate deals are renegotiated again would depend on whether these countries are admitted to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by ...
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