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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9792

28 November 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
WTO says European banana import system is illegal

Brussels, 27/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - The Appelate Body of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) said on the evening of Wednesday 26 November that the EU banana import system contravened international trade rules. The Appelate Body once again found for the United States and Ecuador which had challenged what they considered to be the excessively high customs duty imposed by the EU on imported bananas. The WTO, thus, upheld the decisions made in April, in the case of Ecuador, and May, in the...

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