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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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) compliance panel has formally rejected the European Union’s (EU) discriminatory trade regime favouring imports of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) bananas over those from Latin America. It said the EU 2005 "duty-free tariff quota for bananas originating in ACP countries… failed to implement the…rulings" of the WTO.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London, and SUZANNE KOELEGA, in Sint Maarten, Dutch West Indies

AS with much of life today, the future of gambling is closely tied to the Internet, and this development of an international industry based on instant cross-border cash flows has raised understandable concerns about money laundering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SAFETY certification of airports in the eastern Caribbean requires significant reform, an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) report has stressed. Drawing on Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP) assessments, it raised concerns about airports in Trinidad & Tobago; Jamaica; Antigua & Barbuda; Grenada; St Kitts & Nevis; St.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) is set to rule that the European Union (EU) is still illegally protecting banana exports from the Caribbean and Africa, but there is no prospect of this long running dispute being solved swiftly.…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas; ALAN OSBORN, in London; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut; RACHEL JONES, in Caracas; MARK ROWE; and KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round being slow to proceed since its 2001 launch – and only this year approaching something resembling and end game – free traders wanting to encourage global commerce have looked to bilateral and regional trade deals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has been approving a series of operational programmes for many European Union (EU) member states’ fishing (and aquaculture) sectors, outlining how it will target money from the European Fisheries Fund (EFF).

One of the largest recipients of this Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) subsidy scheme is France, which is to receive Euro 216 million from 2007-13, less than it received under the 2000-2006 Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG), which supplied Euro 278 million.…

BY SUZANNE KOELEGA, in Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, JAMES FULLER, in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, and KEITH NUTHALL

A MAJOR shake up is looming in the political organisation of the Caribbean, with the impending dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles federation, and the creation of separate political units for its composite islands Curaçao, Bonaire, Sint Maarten, Saba and Sint Eustatius (Statia).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUM producers from French overseas departments (counties) have been given a 50% tax break on excise duty charged on sales within mainland France, stretching until December 2012. Most affected manufacturers are based on the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe and the Indian Ocean island of Réunion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Commission official has told just-food.com that while the European Union (EU) may have lost the latest World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute over market access for banana exports, this ruling should soon become irrelevant.

The senor official at the Commission’s trade directorate general claimed the WTO panel said the ruling will be superseded by liberalisation reforms being implemented for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) banana exporters.…