EU – WTO SUGAR CASE CLAIM
July 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is opposing the launch of a WTO case by Brazil, Australia and Thailand against EU sugar subsidies, claiming that the a successful challenge would undermine the trade preferences given to Europe's sugar imports from poorer African, Pacific and Caribbean. Brussels said it would also promote continued overproduction in the three countries, which it claimed were de facto protected markets.
THE EUROPEAN Commission is opposing the launch of a WTO case by Brazil, Australia and Thailand against EU sugar subsidies, claiming that the a successful challenge would undermine the trade preferences given to Europe's sugar imports from poorer African, Pacific and Caribbean. Brussels said it would also promote continued overproduction in the three countries, which it claimed were de facto protected markets.
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