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The EU's plans for trade deals with developing countries have proved controversial. The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) that the European Union has been negotiating...

Were ‘unfair' trade preferences at the heart of the banana war? No. Preferences are central to international trade with developing countries and are becoming more refined....

A former senior trade official reviews what was the EU's longest-running trade dispute. You reported that a final agreement has been reached between the EU and its banana...

Agreement brings to an end the world's longest-running trade dispute. The EU has agreed to slash tariffs on bananas imported from Latin America in a bid to end the oldest...

Draft proposal would lower tariffs, but not as much as the EU had already offered in WTO talks. The European Commission is considering cutting its import duties on bananas...

We press over-hard for trade, while shamefully soft-pedalling on our aid commitments. In New York last week, the UN debate on the Millennium Development Goals exposed the...

Meeting with African, Caribbean and Pacific states ends with fresh pledge and a political first. A Council of Ministers from the EU and from the African, Caribbean and...

Brussels, 15 January 1998EUROPE's former colonies will have to face global market conditions by 2005, if EU governments endorse European Commission plans for a complete...

Concerns are mounting over the economic fate of a number of developing countries which have yet to sign deals with the EU to secure access for their agricultural products...

With so much attention focused on the collapsed Doha trade talks, behind closed doors invidious bilateral trade deals are being forced on the African, Caribbean and Pacific...

A new campaign is opening up in the banana wars, after a proposal by Pascal Lamy, the recently departed trade commissioner, to impose a duty on banana imports of €230...

EUROPEAN Commission customs chiefs are warning some of the Union's poorest trading partners to stop companies from other countries using their ports as a staging-post for...

Further to the article ‘Commission turns its back on ACP Plea' (European Voice, 25 September-1 October), I would like to pick up on the relevance of a binding agreement...

THE European Commission is rejecting a plea from some of the world's poorest countries for a new accord on how trade negotiations should be conducted. Trade ministers from...

EFFORTS to open the markets of poor countries for EU goods will lead to major revenue losses for their governments, a politician from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)...

PRESSURE is mounting on Fiji and a handful of other renegade countries to clean up their act or face suspension from the Lomé Convention, which has bound the EU to its...

THE EU's request for a waiver which would allow its African, Caribbean and Pacific partners to keep the trade privileges they currently enjoy could face a bumpier ride...

Shada Islam EU LINKS with African countries, which make up the bulk of the 71-member African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group, go back to 1975, when the first Lomé...

The Union and its African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) partners signed a trade and aid agreement which will radically alter relations between the two blocs at the end of two...

THE European Commission unveiled its long-awaited policy paper on the precautionary principle yesterday (2 February). The document seeks to define the frequently...