Banana duty is proposed On October 27th 2004 the EC announced its proposals for a Euro 230 per tonne flat-rate tariff for banana imports from 2006. Commissioner Lamy main... 31/01/2005
Commissioner claims that there may be 'no losers' from tariffication 'There should be no losers and no winners in this switch to a tariff-only system; it should not itself change the current shares in the EU market'... 31/01/2005
Transitional ACP banana quotas for new EU member states The adoption of a regulation fixing an additional import quota for ACP bananas for 2005 at 460,000 tonnes was announced by the EC on November 30th... 31/01/2005
Talks with Latin American producers begin The EU initiated consultations with Latin American suppliers on the future tariff to be applied to imports of bananas at the beginning of October... 17/11/2004
The basis is laid for starting negotiations on a tariff-only regime for bananas On June 2nd 2004 the EC proposed to the EU Council to open WTO negotiations on the establishment of a tariff-only regime for EU banana imports. 21/09/2004
Report from the International Banana Conference An international banana conference was held in Kingstown, St. Vincent, from June 8th to 10th 2004, hosted by the government of St. Vincent & t... 21/09/2004
Is social and environmental conditionality WTO compatible? The BRIDGES monthly review for May 2004 includes an article exploring whether the application of differential tariff levels based on social, envir... 21/09/2004
Study on Caribbean banana exports since 1992 is released A report on Caribbean banana exports since 1992 by National Economic Research Associates has concluded that the EU banana regime has not atta... 19/09/2004
ACP Ministers’ resolution on bananas At the ACP Council of Ministers meeting in Gaborone in May 2004 a resolution was passed on bananas calling for undertakings from the EU. 19/09/2004
EU expansion opens up new banana markets Addressing the third session of the FAO’s intergovernmental group on bananas and tropical fruits in the Canary Islands on March 22nd 2004 the FAO s... 16/09/2004