Decision (EU) 2019/1708 establishing the position to be taken within the General Council of the World Trade Organization [Preferential tariff treatment under CBERA]

Summary:

Council Decision of 7 October 2019 establishing the position to be taken on the Union's behalf regarding the extension of a WTO waiver permitting the United States to provide preferential tariff treatment under the US Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA).

Further information:

Further to a request by the United States, the General Council of the WTO is to adopt a decision to extend the existing WTO waiver permitting the US to provide preferential tariff treatment to eligible products originating in Central American and Caribbean countries and territories under CBERA. The existing waiver expires on 31 December 2019. Therefore, the purpose of the envisaged act is to extend the waiver until 30 September 2025.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2019)409: Proposal for a Decision on the position to be taken in the General Council of the World Trade Organization [Preferential tariff treatment under CBERA] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2019:409:FIN

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