EU AND MONTENEGRO STRIKE TRADE DEAL LIBERALISING LEATHER SALES
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL EUROPE'S newest independent country has agreed to remove import duties on of a wide range of raw skins and hides, when they are exported from the European Union (EU). In a wide-ranging trade deal with the EU, Montenegro also agreed to scrap import duties on many lines of men's and women's shoes and boots containing leather. These duty concessions would come into force as soon as the agreement is formally approved. Under its terms, EU duties on Montenegrin exports of bird skins would enter the EU duty free, also with immediate effect. And the EU ...
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