19/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - The main rice exporting countries to the EU (the United States, Pakistan and India) are not ready to negotiate an increase in the European customs duty on rice imports. The European Commission proposed such an increase in the context of a reform of the Common Market Organisation (CMO) for rice, including the removal of the intervention mechanism compensated by the increase in customs duties. Though this increase must, according to the WTO rules, be negotiated by...