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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8795

29 September 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Ecuador hopes to obtain abolition of customs duty on bananas imported into EU

Brussels, 28/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - Just a few months from the opening of WTO negotiations on amending the Community regime for banana imports (after the Member States gave their go-ahead in July: EUROPE of 15 July 2004), Ecuador has put pressure on the European Commission to obtain the lowest customs duty possible, or no duty at all, for bananas imported into the EU. In compliance with the 2001 agreement concluded with Ecuador and the United States to put an end to the "banana war", the...

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