EU MAY LIBERALISE TEXTILE AND CLOTHING DEAL WITH BELARUS

BY KEITH NUTHALL TEXTILE and clothing importers in the European Union (EU) will look closely at negotiations authorised this week (NOTE - MONDAY 7 SEPT) by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to revise the EU's textile and clothing trade agreement with Belarus. This has long been renewed annually, but Belarus export quotas have changed little in recent years, because of cool relations between Brussels and Minsk over human rights. But a much-publicised falling out between Belarus and Russia and some democratisation reforms in Belarus has raised the ...


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