EU SET TO LOSE LATEST WTO BATTLE OVER BANANA TRADE
November 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission official has told just-food.com that while the European Union (EU) may have lost the latest World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute over market access for banana exports, this ruling should soon become irrelevant.
The senor official at the Commission's trade directorate general claimed the WTO panel said the ruling will be superseded by liberalisation reforms being implemented for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) banana exporters. These countries are being offered zero duty and zero quota free trade for their banana ...
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