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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9402
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade

Council agreement on a compromise to open way to reducing duties on aluminium imports by half

Brussels, 05/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - After more than two months of discussions, the 27 member states finally came to an agreement on 3 April, at an extraordinary meeting of the Council's customs union working group, on a draft regulation aiming to bring customs tariffs on unwrought non-alloy aluminium down from the current level of 6% to 3% (EUROPE 9390). In addition to the reduction by half of the tariff on imports of aluminium, the draft regulation envisages a review of the situation...

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