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Banana wars

A new European Union tariff on imported bananas has been declared illegal by the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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Currently, Latin American exports to the EU are limited, with the duty per tonne set at 75 euros for the first 2.7 million tonnes of exports, rising after that to 680 euros per tonne.

Under the new regime, ACP [Africa, Caribbean and Pacific] producers would have continued to export bananas duty-free.

Proposals to replace quotas with higher duties would have cost producers more and threatened livelihoods, the group of Latin American countries had claimed.
Deve ser o consumidor ou a União Europeia a decidir que banana é vendida nos supermercados?