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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9078

30 November 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 22 / 34
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
EU imposes customs duty on banana imports, together with zero-duty quota for ACPs

Brussels, 29/11/2005 (Agence Europe) -29 November, the Council of the EU adopted without debate the regulation setting customs duty to be applied from imports of bananas from Latin America as of 1 January 2006 at a level of 176 EUR per tonne. The EU is also setting in place an autonomous tariff quota of 775,000 tonnes a year, at a rate of zero duty, which is open to banana imports from the ACP countries. The regulation was adopted by qualified majority, without the agreement of seven States...

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