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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12699

16 April 2021
EXTERNAL ACTION / Myanmar
MEPs call for suspension of tariff preferences to sanction Myanmar's military junta
Brussels, 15/04/2021 (Agence Europe)

The Burmese military junta needs to be hit where it hurts, according to MEPs on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade (INTA), who discussed trade relations with Myanmar on Thursday 15 April. 

The country is under the Everything But Arms (EBA) regime of the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP). Aimed at the least developed countries, this regime allows the removal of tariffs on all goods imported from the country in question, except for arms.

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