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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10012

5 November 2009
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Canada wants consultations with EU at WTO over ban on selling seal products

Brussels, 04/11/2009 (Agence Europe) - As announced at the end of July 2009 after the Council of Ministers gave the go-ahead to a regulation banning the sale of products made from seals in the EU (see EUROPE 9949-9950), Canada formally requested on Monday 2 November 2009 the opening of talks at the World Trade Organisation over the EU decision, which the Canadian trade minister Stockwell Day described in a letter to the WTO as contradicting the EU's duties under to world trade rules. The EU...

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