MEPS CALL FOR REFORM TO EU-TURKEY CUSTOMS UNION
July 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
REFORMING the customs union between the European Union (EU) and Turkey would boost the key EU-Turkish textiles and clothing trade, the European Parliament's international trade committee has said.
A communiqué said despite industrial goods traded between Turkey and the EU being duty free, "customs union mechanisms need to be fully functional, bureaucracy simplified, and remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers removed." It wants abolished "all unnecessary barriers to EU-Turkey trade, such as non-recognition of certification, ...
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