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| Author: | Thagesen, R. Matthews, A. |
| Title: | The EU's Common Banana Regime: An Initial Evaluation |
| Journal: | Journal of Common Market Studies
1997 : DEC, Vol. 35:4, p. 615-627 |
| Index terms: | EUROPEAN UNION FRUIT INDUSTRY RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES REGULATIONS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The European Union (EU) adopted a unified banana policy as part of the completion of the Single European Market (SEM) on July 1993. Before that date, some EU countries gave preferred market access and high prices to banana producers from selected developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific (ACPs), and from EU territorial suppliers. This preferential status was regarded as a form of aid to countries with historical ties to certain EU countries (France, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, Greece and Spain). Complex and highly distortionary trade regimes based on quota restrictions on imports from non-preferred suppliers were put in place in these member countries to protect preferred suppliers. Other countries had virtually no preferences and operated either a free trade policy or imposed relatively small tariffs. |
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