Beef and bananas on Luxembourg menu

26 April 1999

Beef and bananas on Luxembourg menu

EUROPEAN Union foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg today will discuss relations with the USA in the light of the trade disputes over hormone-treated beef and bananas.

THE World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva will hear this week how the European Union proposes to comply with its rulings against its ban on hormone-treated beef from the USA and Canada.

Both countries have threatened trade sanctions if the EU does not lift the ban by 13 May.

• Hormone beef ban provocative, FWi, 23 April, 1999
  
• Europe plans to ban all US beef, FWi, yesterday (22 April, 1999)

• Pressure builds for hormone beef imports, FWi, 08 April, 1999
• USA names targets in hormone-beef war, FWi, 26 March, 1999
• Brown backs hormone beef, FWi, 23 March, 1999
• USA sets out beef peace plan, FWi, 15 February, 1999
• EU to reform banana regime, FWi, 20 April, 1999
• WTO to authorise banana sanctions, FWi, yesterday (19 April, 1999)
• Europe ready to accept banana defeat, FWi, 16 April, 1999
• WTO to back US banana sanctions? FWi, 13 April, 1999
• Good week for the US, FWi, 12 April, 1999
  

• Financial Times 26/04/99 page 42 (FT Guide To The Week)