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Article: TRADE-SOUTH AFRICA: SOUTH AFRICAN TOMATO GROWERS FACE EU SQUEEZE
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- November 16, 1998
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Grant Luke (*)
Inter Press Service English News Wire
11-16-1998
CAPE TOWN, Nov. 16 (PANOS/IPS) -- South African labor unions
are mounting national protest campaigns against controversial trade
negotiations with the European Union which, they fear, will do
little to help South African tomato growers already at risk from
Europe's trade policies.
The negotiations are aimed at setting up a Free Trade Agreement
(FTA) between the two markets. It is being conducted on the fringes
of renegotiations on the Lome Convention -- a huge trade and aid
pact between the EU's 15 nations and 71 countries from the African,
Caribbean and Pacific regions -- which runs out in the year 2000.
The FTA seeks to ...