US-EU WINE-MAKING DELAY: 50 words

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PROTRACTED talks between the United States and the European Union (EU) over allowable oenological practices are continuing to drag on, with the European Commission proposing that US exporters should be allowed to sell wine made in ways banned in the EU for another year (until December 2004). This exemption from EU law has been extended regularly since the rules were agreed in 1999.



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