SERBIA & MONTENEGRO
June 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has suspended for at least three months the preferential zero tariff on sugar imported into the European Union from Serbia & Montenegro. Brussels acted because of concerns at European anti-fraud office OLAF, that local rules of origin controls are too weak to prevent sugar being illicitly exported to Serbia & Montenegro and then re-exported into the EU.
THE EUROPEAN Commission has suspended for at least three months the preferential zero tariff on sugar imported into the European Union from Serbia & Montenegro. Brussels acted because of concerns at European anti-fraud office OLAF, that local rules of origin controls are too weak to prevent sugar being illicitly exported to Serbia & Montenegro and then re-exported into the EU.
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