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  • Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner visits the Republic of Moldova to invigorate relations 26 Nov 2009 11:32 GMT
    ... Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner visits the Republic of Moldova ... of responsibility. In 2009, Moldova and the European Commission concluded technical negotiations on the country’s accession ... which means that the EU lifts trade tariffs for nearly all Moldovan products except those clearly specified ...

  • Poor banana countries oppose EU trade deal 26 Nov 2009 15:05 GMT
    ... Poor banana countries oppose EU trade deal Poor banana-producing countries accused the ... deal with Latin American countries on banana tariffs, in a bid to get global trade talks moving. ... from lower tariffs. According to an internal European Commission memo, ACP countries would be paid up ...

  • UPDATE 1-EDF CEO wants 15 pct Veolia stake, no merger-reports 26 Nov 2009 14:34 GMT
    ... to raise electricity prices, but he said tariffs would certainly change. The CEO opposes the sale ... at low prices, as imposed by the European Commission, he added. A spokesman for competition commissioner Neelie Kroes declined to comment. Proglio also ...

  • Spain promises tangible results from EU/Mercosur trade talks 26 Nov 2009 00:22 GMT
    ... May 2010”, said Spanish diplomatic sources. The European Commission has suggested the first technical meetings should ... held in December. The negotiations between the EU and Mercosur were first launched in 1999 ... on the EU to lower its agriculture tariffs and subsidies. Argentina will be presiding over Mercosur during ...

  • EU wants to negotiate FTA with Vietnam 26 Nov 2009 11:58 GMT
    ... Bridge – The European Union (EU) wants to officially negotiate with Vietnam about ... whether the EU will extend its anti-dumping tariffs on Vietnam’s leather-capped shoes, he said the EU’s anti-dumping ...

  • EU bio industry complains over U.S. duty evaders 26 Nov 2009 18:13 GMT
    ... Thursday it would lodge a complaint with EU trade authorities against companies they say are ... duties slapped on U.S. biodiesel imports. The European Commission, which oversees trade policy for the 27-nation ... cooperated with the Commission's investigation faced a tariff of 335 euros per tonne, while all others had ...

  • The banana wars are over 26 Nov 2009 17:34 GMT
    ... colonies of Britain or France protected from EU import tariffs that are imposed on their competitors. The dispute – one ... end. Last week the EU's current trade commissioner (and soon-to-be foreign affairs supremo) Catherine Ashton ...

  • Alcoa halts Italian plants after EU electricity ruling 23 Nov 2009 15:11 GMT
    ... on Thursday (19 November) that preferential electricity tariffs offered to Alcoa by Italy for aluminium smelters ... most of the illegal subsidies," said Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. The Commission ordered Italy to ... dark day for European heavy industry. The European Commission is sending a signal to investors and ...

  • The European Union is 'in a democratic mess' 21 Nov 2009 14:12 GMT
    ... dismantle the rest of the Common External Tariff. I'd phase out all structural, cohesion and social funds, ... Now the biggie: deregulation. According to the Commissioner for Enterprise, Gunther Verheugen, the benefits of ... justice, and social and employment policy. The European Commission could then be reduced to a small ...

  • Ecuador - Banana deal with the EU 23 Nov 2009 00:31 GMT
    ... Ecuador - Banana deal with the EU European Union negotiators are within days of ... days of striking a deal to cut tariffs on bananas imported from Latin America and others outside the ... rivals to sell bananas in Europe. European Commissioner for Trade, Baroness Ashton, told Reuters: "We ...

  • European Parliament passes telecoms reforms 24 Nov 2009 13:36 GMT
    ... protection, and quite possibly, operator headaches. , EU Telecoms Commissioner, since 2007, proposes a somewhat controversial overhaul ... contracts; as well as clearer information of tariff and pricing structures; and the right to be informed about ...

  • Bananas deal likely to be too late for WTO talks: source 25 Nov 2009 19:16 GMT
    ... Agreement over tariffs imposed by Brussels on banana producers "will more ... negotiations led by outgoing European Union Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton, who has cancelled a number ... from lower tariffs. According to an internal European Commission memo obtained by AFP last week, ACP ...

  • GMO, biodiesel situations looming heavy on trade relations 24 Nov 2009 11:13 GMT
    ... and still no immediate action from the European Commission to propose a technical solution in the ... still remain.” FEDIOL further urged EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou to come forward urgently with ... new blend to Europe to avoid EU tariffs that stopped millions of dollars in international fuel commerce. ...

  • EU: Consumer prices could drop as banana wars end 23 Nov 2009 16:34 GMT
    ... EU: Consumer prices could drop as banana wars ... by the end of this week, the European Commission announced today. A draft settlement obtained by ... the European Union (EU) to gradually cut tariffs on bananas from $260 per ton to $114 if ...

  • Alcoa to idle smelting operations at two sites in Italy 23 Nov 2009 15:54 GMT
    ... rates and the financial impact of today’s European Commission (EC) decision that Italy’s extension of the ... that Italy’s extension of the existing electricity tariff after 2005 did not comply with European Union (EU) state aid rules and that a portion ...


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