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Article: EU, United States engaged in trade tussle. (political notebook).(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- September 2, 2002
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Another month and another trans-Atlantic trade row--not that it has hit the radar screens of the media here yet. It a move that will further sour trans-Atlantic relations, central and eastern European countries applying to join the European Union (EU) have been told by Brussels that they will have to ditch or change bilateral trade accords reached with the United States after the fall of communism.
The 10 would-be EU member states now are in a quandary, caught as they are in the middle. According to the EU, there are good legal grounds for the request--bilateral trade accords are incompatible with membership in the union and clash with current EU-U.S. trade ...