EU BANANA TRADE TARIFF QUOTA LOWERED
December 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU has again lowered its protection of the Caribbean banana industry. The EU ministers have now approved an import tariff of Euro 176/tonne from January 1 for all WTO member countries, barring African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) group former EU colonies, which receive a duty-free annual import quota of 775,000 tonnes.
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THE EU has again lowered its protection of the Caribbean banana industry. The EU ministers have now approved an import tariff of Euro 176/tonne from January 1 for all WTO member countries, barring African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) group former EU colonies, which receive a duty-free annual import quota of 775,000 tonnes.
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