Search Results for: Caribbean

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ECUADOR, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala have launched disputes proceedings at the WTO opposing the planned level of EU duties on their banana exports from 2006, when the current quota system is scrapped. Caribbean producers will pay lower tariffs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DIVISIONS over the EU sugar regime reforms have been clarified at a European Union (EU) Council of Ministers (agriculture) meeting. British, Danish, German, Swedish, Latvian and Maltese delegations wanted “rapid reform, to make the sector more competitive”, though concerns of ex-European colonies in the African Pacific Caribbean (ACP) bloc “should be taken into account”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GERMAN and Italian subsidiaries of US fruit giant Dole, (Dole Fresh Fruit Europe and Comafrica SpA) have lost European Court of Justice bids to secure damage against the European Commission over its assistance to Caribbean banana producers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PRESIDENT George W Bush’s re-election last November has pretty well ruled out any change in the US ban on Cuban cigars for the next four years – if anything, things are likely to get tougher. One of the last things the previous Bush administration did last October was to actually tighten the import ban by barring Americans travelling to Cuba from bringing back up to US$100 dollars worth of Cuban cigars.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON and KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPORTS and entertainment industries thirst for sponsorship, and with the ever-growing boom in televising sporting events worldwide via satellite, the chance to expose a drinks company logo to world audiences in their billions should make sponsorship a sellers’ market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has dealt a blow to the hopes of international lawyers wanting to launch legal actions by exploiting World Trade Organisation (WTO) rulings. It has ruled that WTO decisions and agreements are essentially diplomatic, with have no direct effect on European Union (EU) law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SUGAR action plan has been published by the European Commission to help African, Caribbean and Pacific producers improve their efficiency, after the liberalisation of the European Union sugar regime makes Europe’s market more competitive. Brussels will also help these sugar producers adopt different crops.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AFRICAN, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) sugar producing developing countries have attacked European Commission common market reform plans that would erode their existing preferential sugar trade regime with the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HONDURAS government is seeking to improve its victory over the Dominican Republic in its disputes case at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), where a panel ruled last December that the Caribbean island state had unfairly restricted the import of Honduran cigarettes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning from 2006 to introduce Euro 230/tonne duties on Latin American bananas imported into the EU, while African, Caribbean and Pacific suppliers would pay lower duties. Dollar bananas currently attract Euro 75/tonne.…