EU sugar subsidies criticised by WTO

The World Trade Organisation on 4 August 2004 increased the pressure on the European Union to make sweeping reforms of its costly sugar regime by finding that subsidies paid under the policy violated global trade rules.

http://ec.europa.eu/comm/agriculture/markets/sugar/index_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/comm/agriculture/markets/sugar/index_en.htm

http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/dispu_e.htm http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/dispu_e.htm

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