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LONG-RUNNING BANANA DISPUTE GOES PUBLIC AT THE WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA and the European Union (EU) have opened to the public a disputes panel at the World Trade Organisation considering their 12-year diplomatic battle over the banana trade. Washington – backed by Latin American producers – still claims the EU unfairly favours Caribbean and African banana producers.…
EU MINISTERS ORDER RUM DUTY REDUCTION FOR FRENCH CARIBBEAN PRODUCERS
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. The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved the derogation from standard EU excise rules, after French government claims that these rum manufacturers are vulnerable commercially.…
LONG-RUNNING BANANA DISPUTE GOES PUBLIC AT THE WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and the European Union (EU) have agreed to open to the public the November 6 and 7 meetings of a disputes panel at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) considering their 12-year diplomatic battle over the banana trade.…
EU MINISTERS ORDER RUM DUTY REDUCTION FOR FRENCH CARIBBEAN PRODUCERS
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, which will stretch until December 2012. The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved this as a derogation from standard EU excise rules, after French government claims that these rum manufacturers are vulnerable commercially.…
WTO BANANA TRADE DISPUTE RESTARTED BY USA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DISPUTE at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over the allegedly illegal protection of African and Caribbean bananas within the European Union (EU) has flared up again. Following a request by the United States a special ‘compliance panel’ has been established today at the WTO to examine whether the EU has fulfilled an earlier ruling ordering European banana market liberalisation.…
CARIBBEAN CRIME ACADEMY WILL HELP REGION PREYED UPON BY ORGANISED CRIMINALS
BY SUZANNE KOELEGA, in Sint Maarten
AS leaders of various Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries and US President George Bush debated regional security in Washington DC in June, Caribbean nations continue to struggle with serious commercial crime that threatens their regional stability.…
DUTCH QUEEN OPENS REVAMPED SINT MAARTEN PRINCESS JULIANA AIRPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL, in Sint Maarten
A NEW Caribbean airport terminal has been opened to secure Sint Maarten’s Princess Juliana International Airport’s (PJIA) role as a regional hub. Formally launched by the Netherlands’ Queen Beatrix November 10, the airport serves the world’s smallest territory split between two sovereign states (Dutch Sint Maarten and French Saint Martin).…
EU GENDER REPORT SAYS WOMEN MAKE FISH FARMING SUSTAINABLE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A JOINT European Union-African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) Group of States study into women working in developing country aquaculture has concluded such businesses are probably more economically and environmentally sustainable with female management involvement than men-only enterprises. The report has just been released by the European Commission and includes case studies.…
OLAF BUSTS SUGAR RULES OF ORIGIN SCAM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union anti-fraud agency OLAF has uncovered a rules-of-origin fraud where 4,000 tonnes raw cane sugar was illicitly imported into Britain and Malta under duty-free African-Caribbean-Pacific quotas. The sugar was Brazilian, evading Euro 2 million duties.…
NICARAGUA IN LATEST EU BANANA PROTEST AT WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NICARAGUA has joined the latest round of formal disputes talks demanded by Ecuador at the World Trade Organisation, over the European Union’s banana import system, which Managua says favours Caribbean island producers.…