tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18156735.post1576975213878500207..comments2023-10-29T17:43:27.054+07:00Comments on café salemba: Who's afraid of banana?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18156735.post-56216200941620752672007-03-09T10:26:00.000+07:002007-03-09T10:26:00.000+07:00Pasha that was a great rejoinder! Thanks!<B>Pasha</B> that was a great rejoinder! Thanks!Acohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16457844915547531461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18156735.post-60260005561853622592007-03-08T21:48:00.000+07:002007-03-08T21:48:00.000+07:00didn't garuda poison a man one time? I'm not surpr...didn't garuda poison a man one time? I'm not surprised that they can resort to any type of distasteful acts ;|Tikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14667799093015899901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18156735.post-51426503496183106792007-03-08T08:02:00.000+07:002007-03-08T08:02:00.000+07:00Way back in the early 90's there was this so calle...Way back in the early 90's there was this so called "Banana Wars" between the EU vs. the US and Latin American banana exporters. The dispute was prompted by the EU banana regime, which discriminates Latin American bananas in favor of bananas from former European colonies. At that time the EU impose tariff rate quota, along with licensing requirements, and other discriminatory rules such as classifying importers into three to groups to allocate import licenses. Thereby reducing Latin American share in EU banana market. EU is a large importer of bananas which constitute about 40% of world banana trade. This also would hurt the large US distributors, since they distributes bananas from Latin America, with the exception of Ecuador.<BR/><BR/>This was one of the first cases to be brought under the new WTO dispute settlement mechanism. The case was also interesting because the USTR (United States Trade Representative) also files claims covering the service sector, i.e. distributors. Back then what was considered marketable service was legal or accounting services and not the service of transfer of goods. <BR/><BR/>Anyhow, the dispute took almost a decade to settled. It was settled in around 1999-2000.Pashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03040951834210426940noreply@blogger.com