LOME CONVENTION

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                    [Title] => Asean members back RP effort to sell agri products to Australia
                    [Summary] => The Philippines and other members of the ASEAN Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) threatened not to participate in the proposed ASEAN Free Trade Area-Closer Economic Relations (CER) countries unless Australia relaxes its restrictions on the importation of fresh tropical fruits and other agricultural products.


AMAF members also reiterated their protest over Australia’s protectionist policies before the World Trade Organization (WTO).


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                    [Title] => Asean countries ask US, EU to abolish canned tuna tariffs
                    [Summary] => Asean member-countries have agreed to ask the US and the European Union to reduce the tariffs on canned tuna from 24 percent to zero percent.


At the recent meeting of the officials of the Asean Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF), member-countries rallied behind the Philippine government’s position to bring up the issue in the Cotonou Agreement, successor to the Lome Convention. The Lome Convention was named after a town in France, where regular annual meetings of tuna producers and processors worldwide were held.


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Asean members back RP effort to sell agri products to Australia

November 10, 2000 - 12:00am

The Philippines and other members of the ASEAN Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) threatened not to participate in the proposed ASEAN Free Trade Area-Closer Economic Relations (CER) countries unless Australia...

Business

Asean countries ask US, EU to abolish canned tuna tariffs

By Rocel Felix | November 10, 2000 - 12:00am

Asean member-countries have agreed to ask the US and the European Union to reduce the tariffs on canned tuna from 24 percent to zero percent. At the recent meeting of the officials of the Asean Ministry of Agriculture...

Business