TRADE Commissioner Pascal Lamy has bowed to pressure…

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Series Details 08/02/01, Volume 7, Number 06
Publication Date 08/02/2001
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Date: 08/02/01

...to give rice, banana and sugar growers more time to prepare for the granting of duty-free access to 'everything but arms' from the world's 48 poorest countries. The EU executive said it has adapted its proposal to extend transition periods until January 2006 for bananas, October 2009 for rice and July 2009 for sugar.

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