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Article: Thai Commerce Ministry holds out for better deal with Europe on rice tariff.
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- July 7, 2004
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By Phusadee Arunmas, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 7--Negotiations between the European Union and Thailand on new rice tariff rates have yet to be finalised, with the Commerce Ministry insisting that the difference in rates for white and husked rice should not be more than 80 to 90 euros per tonne.
The gap under the latest EU proposal is 110 euros per tonne, with white rice imports taxed at 175 euros per tonne and husked rice, or brown rice, carrying a tariff of 65 euros per tonne.
Commerce Minister Watana Muangsook, in a letter to EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy and EU Agriculture Minister Franz ...