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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9017
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/wto/bananas

Commission to present new proposal on banana import duties on 6 September

Brussels, 31/08/2005 (Agence Europe) - At its meeting in Strasbourg on 6 September, the European Commission is to adopt a new proposal on import duty applicable to imported bananas, further to the WTO arbitration which took place at the beginning of August, which decided that the customs duty of 230 EUR per tonne initially proposed walls too high to allow the producing countries of Latin America to maintain their share of the Community market (EUROPE 9003). The new tariff is likely to be...

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