WTO urges banana peace

09 March 1999

WTO urges banana peace

WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) members have urged the USA and the European Union to resolve their dispute over bananas.

Some WTO members criticised a US move last week to impose conditional sanctions on a wide range of European goods, at an emergency meeting this week.

Sanctions include punitive duties on the import of European pig meat.

• WTO to hear EU banana protest, FWi, yesterday (08 March, 1999)
• Trade war escalates over bananas, FWi, 05 March,
  1999

• USA starts banana-war sanctions, FWi, 04 March, 1999< /a>
• Bananas – WTO steps in, FWi, 03 March, 1999
• WTO to examine banana battle, FWi, 01 March, 1999
• USA and EU go bananas again, FWi, 22 February, 1999
• EU seeks ruling on US sanctions law, FWi, 08
  February, 1999
  

• The Times 09/03/02/99 page 11, page 22
  
• The Independent 09/03/02/99 page 11, page 4 (Tuesday Review)
• Financial Times 09/03/99 page 4, page 24
  
• The Guardian 09/03/99 page 18 (Notebook), page 19
• The Daily Telegraph 09/03/99 page 14