WTO LAYS DOWN THE LAW ON EUROPE’S DISCRIMINATORY BANANA REGIME
May 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is official: the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will have no truck with the European Union's (EU) discriminatory trade regime favouring imports of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) bananas over those from Latin America. In its 2005 "duty-free tariff quota for bananas originating in ACP countries, the European Union has failed to implement the...rulings" of the WTO, ruled a special compliance panel requested by the USA. The EU will now be expected to confirm more liberal access for Latin American 'dollar bananas'. The US ...
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