NUCLEAR INDUSTRY COULD BENEFIT FROM EU-SYRIA TRADE DEAL
December 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) nuclear industry should find it easier to supply equipment and materials to Syria in future following a newly signed wide-ranging association agreement. This will erase duties imposed on EU-made nuclear exports; Syrian exports of these products and minerals already enter the EU duty free. Damascus has long talked about establishing a nuclear sector, but has yet to build any nuclear power plants.
This agreement is a political cooperation and free trade deal. It was initialled by the EU and Syria in 2004, but its formal ...
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