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"The Geneva Agreement signed on 15 December 2009 between the EU and Latin American banana-supplying countries settled a long dispute within the World Trade Organisation (WTO). These negotiations, which were conducted in the context of the Doha Round, involve not only the Latin American countries, but also the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and the US, which have pledged to end the disputes in the WTO over the EU’s banana import regime and with which the EU maintains trade relations. The aim of this agreement is to introduce a gradual decrease in EU customs duties over seven years.
I therefore welcome the negotiations undertaken by the Commission and hope that these agreements on trade in bananas – the Geneva Agreement and EU-US Agreement – will be concluded as soon as possible. Finally, I hope that these agreements will contribute to improving competitiveness and promoting economic diversification policies, as well as policies that raise the social, economic and environmental level of these countries in the developing world, without forgetting, of course, the measures of assistance under the Programme of Options Specifically Relating to Remoteness and Insularity to support banana producers in the outermost regions of the EU."@en1
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