EU ENLARGEMENT FEATURE
July 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNFOR the non ferrous metals industries, the formal enlargement of the EU next May will not be an overnight sensation but rather the end of a ten-year process during which producers in eastern and central Europe have progressively adapted themselves to the western European model. We can expect no immediate and major changes in trade patterns since all intra-Europe tariff and quota barriers have been torn down in recent years. Indeed most of the incoming countries' metal sales are already made in France and Germany, and trade between the EU and the ...
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