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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9638

9 April 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
EU loses another round in banana war

Brussels, 08/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 7 April 2008, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) again found the EU banana import system guilty of discrimination against non-EU countries selling so-called dollar bananas. The WTO dispute settlement body therefore agreed with Ecuador, the plaintiff. Other countries (Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and the United States) have also complained to the WTO in this case. The European Commission has let it be known that it disagrees with the conclusions...

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