Brussels, 09/03/2000 (Agence Europe) - In order to avoid a conflict with the European Commission over reforming the Customs Code, Ministers at the March 15 Internal Market Council meeting looked amenable to making European importers partly liable for repaying customs duties from which their goods had been wrongly exempted.
A few months ago, as the Council was preparing to unanimously approve a compromise draft reform of the Customs Code, the Commission had threatened to withdraw its...