Brussels, 09/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 8 March, in Geneva, the EU and several ACP countries called for deferral of Ecuador's request to set up a new WTO panel to settle the dispute over the banana trade (EUROPE 9378). Everything points to Ecuador's request, which challenges the validity of the new banana import regime set in place by the EU in 2006, being endorsed at the next meeting of the WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), on 20 March. The WTO panel will, in principle, have six...