Brussels, 19/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has opened a consultation on the rules of origin applied to preferential trade regimes, publishing a Green Paper. Interested parties have until 1 March 2004 to comment.
The "preferential" regimes relate to some forty countries, representing around two-thirds of annual Community imports. The preferences are, however, effectively only used for 45% of the annual imports from these countries, the Commission points out in a press...