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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9071

19 November 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Member States divided over level of customs duty to apply to banana imports from 2006

Brussels, 18/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has changed its tactics and proposed to the Member States the application of customs duty of 179 EUR per tonne on imports of bananas to the EU from the countries of Latin America, as of 1 January 2006. In line with an agreement between all members of the WTO at the end of 2001, the EU had agreed to change its challenged import quota system for bananas into a solely tariff-based system. Both previous proposals (187 and 230 EUR/tonne) were,...

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