Brussels, 18/11/2009 (Agence Europe) - Rumours about an imminent world deal on banana imports that were circulating in October 2009 (see EUROPE 9985 and 9996) have been confirmed. Latin-American banana growers (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela) are reported to have agreed to the European Commission's suggestion of gradually reducing the EU's import tax on banana imports from these countries from now until 2017 from...