Seafood, not bananas, heads Panamas earners
06 January 1999
Seafood, not bananas, heads Panama’s earners
THE Financial Times reports that seafood has overtaken bananas as Panamas main export commodity.
Banana exports were worth $98 million (£59m) in the first nine months of 1998,. but are being affected by the US trade wrangle with the European Union.
Panama is one of five banana-growing countries which, together with the USA, won a World Trade Organisation ruling against the European Unions preferential treatment of banana producers in former British and French colonies.
The issue is yet to be resolved and is affecting production.
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