Between now and the end of the year, or by early 2025 at the latest, the European Commission plans to propose accelerating trade liberalisation with Moldova. The exact form of this next stage in the abolition of tariff quotas (total or partial liberalisation) is being negotiated with Chișinău, which initiated the request.
Under the EU/Moldova Association Agreement, which came into force in 2016, tariff quotas are to be phased out over a ten-year period. Following this timetable, trade is...