NON-FERROUS METAL INDUSTRY BENEFITS AS EU STRIKES TRADE DEAL WITH SYRIA
November 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NON-FERROUS metal sector should benefit from a newly signed wide-ranging association agreement between the European Union (EU) and Syria. The deal has been a long time coming - having been initialled first in 2004. Diplomatic complications have held up its formal signature since then, but the EU has at last approved its terms. An EU Council of Ministers communiqué said the agreement would "establish conditions for the progressive liberalisation of trade in goods, services and capital" between the EU and Syria.
The deal will scrap ...
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