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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11368
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) trade

75% of trade-restrictive measures adopted since 2008 still in place (WTO report)

Brussels, 28/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - Of the 2,416 trade-restrictive measures adopted by the member states of the WTO since October 2008 (when the financial crisis began), less than 25% have been repealed and 1,828 restrictive measures are still in place, the WTO stresses in its latest report on trade developments, which was published on 23 July.

Between October 2014 and May 2015, 104 new restrictive measures have been set in place, or an average of 15 new measures a month, and a 12%...