EU requests WTO panel with Colombia on frozen fries
Marc Van Herreweghe
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EU requests WTO panel with Colombia on frozen fries
source: EC
The EU today stepped up its action against unlawful trade restrictions affecting EU exporters of frozen fries by requesting World Trade Organization (WTO) panel with Colombia.
Commissioner for Trade Phil Hogan said: “In the current global circumstances, enforcement of our rights under international trade rules must become a central part of our trade policy efforts. We need to use all means at our disposal to remove trade restrictions affecting European companies, big and small, across all sectors of the EU economy. Today’s panel requests confirm our determination to enforce our trade rights using binding and independent WTO dispute settlement, which is a cornerstone of a rules-based trading system.”
The dispute with Colombia concerns unlawful anti-dumping duties of 3% to 8% affecting nearly all sales of frozen fries from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands in the Colombian market worth over €19 million a year.
The request for the establishment of a panel in disputes follows government-to-government formal consultations, which took place on 15 and 16 January 2020 with Colombia, and multiple earlier bilateral contacts that did not lead to the removal of the trade restrictions.
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5 年Marc, interesting development!!