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Article: EU/LATIN AMERICA: LATIN AMERICAN PRODUCERS FURIOUS AT BANANA TARIFF PROPOSAL.(European Union)(Brief Article)
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- European Report
- Article date:
- October 30, 2004
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Latin America's banana producers have reacted angrily to the EU's October 28 proposal to set its new banana tariff at Euro 230/tonne and have promised to pursue "whatever measures are necessary" to lower the tariff. Panama's chief commercial negotiator Estif Aparicio said the same day that the proposal "represents an unacceptable threat to the interests of Panama and Latin America in general, and will need to be stopped". Latin America's producers have vigorously lobbied in Brussels for a tariff of Euro 75/tonne or less.
Panama and fellow producers Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua published a common declaration on the day of the EU ...