Brussels, 30/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Union and the United States have managed to settle one of the large number of disputes that have been poisoning their trade relations, this time concerning customs duty levied by Belgium in 1997 and 1998 on "Uncle Ben's" rice imports produced by the US agrifood giant Mars Inc. Using "rather over-zealous" analyses (according to an EU expert), Belgium had levied customs duties for untreated rice to the rice in question, under the common...