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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7782

23 August 2000
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/bananas
Main Latin American exporters reject Commission strategy

Panama, 22/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - Representatives of nine Latin American banana exporting countries, meeting in Panama on Friday, rejected the new Community strategy aimed at settling the dispute over bananas. The representatives of Ecuador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela said that they were together to make a counter-proposal: the formula proposed by the EU - "first come first served" - does not, they say, assure fair competition (See...

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