They want to discuss with [Tony Blair] the devastating effects of plans by the EU to slash the price of sugar the 78-state African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries sells to the EU by as much as 39 percent next year. Sugar would have to be the main agenda of any meeting with Mr. Blair," said Rudy Insanally as he prepared to leave with the Guyana delegation for New York. "Caricom also wants to meet with Secretary [Condoleezza Rice] to discuss important matters. The agenda with Rice has not been fixed, said Insanally, but the region would want to discuss a plan by the Bush administration to compel American tourists returning from the Caribbean and other areas to use passports re-entering the US.
A TEAM of consultants employed by the European Union (EU) are in the island to help produce a national strategy to help Jamaica adapt to the EU's sugar price cuts. The sugar industry experts and development economists are one of several teams the EU is sending to African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) sugar-producing countries.
In the last week, banana producers from the ACP, a 78-nation grouping of former European colonies, had to deal with the same problem as USowned Latin American farmers, who want to wipe ACP producers out of the lucrative EU market, renewed their attempt - to have the EU deal with the situation to their benefit. From the meeting emerged the Yaounde Appeal, which basically calls for a specially negotiated, fair and long-lasting regime that will once and for all end the banana wars that the Clinton administration played such a negative role in escalating by pressing the EU to overturn export benefits for the ACP in the '90s. Now is the time for ACP countries to ask banana producers in Latin and Central America to sit down around the negotiating table with the aim of arriving at a mutually ...
The Members, chiefly among them the United States, European Union (EU), Brazil, China, and India, have used legal details to advance their narrow agendas. Since ancient times, city-states and countries have negotiated out of self-interest. [...] in trade, no reliable meta-inferences can be drawn without first coming to grips with the rigors of real-world negotiating documents.
Satya Veyash Faugoo, food production minister of Mauritius, said countries are struggling to adapt to an EU decision in 2005 to cut sugar export prices by 36 percent that is being phased in over a fouryear period, including 2009. The ACP states concerned are therefore requesting the European Commission show greater flexibility. We also plead with the EU and the European Parliament to provide additional resources beyond the current financial framework because the impact of the crisis was not factored into the calculation of the cost. Prime Minister Samuel Hinds of Guyana also joined in bashing the EU, saying that it should make it easier for former colonies to draw down on financing that had been set aside for ACP countries to help them remain afloat as the EU reorganizes its agricultu...
... America's leading banana exporter, the countries have settled on an acceptable tariff. "We have cle...
Fortunately on July 31, the senate finally ratified Preval's most recent nominee, economist Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis, as the new prime minister, reversing the announcement of the day before that the approval hearing would be suspended indefinitely. [...] stability could be a new fact of life in Haiti.
... Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries who face no EU import duty under the bloc's prefer...
In a statement issued at the end of a meeting organised by the Commonwealth and ACP Secretariats to examine the full implications of EPAs and the realistic options open to ACP countries, the grouping said while some ACP countries have signed on to the interim EPAs, others have expressed concerns, saying that the deal doesn't provide fully for the development objectives of the countries.
... poor rural people in 114 developing countries. While there is a broad consensus that agricultura...
If African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations had any doubts about whether richer nations cared whether they sink or swim, they needed only to note a late November ruling by European Union (EU) agriculture ministers that slashed the price of ACP sugar exports by 36 percent from next year. For months, the EU had been threatening to take drastic action to meet World Trade Organization (WTO) rules to cut subsidies for the agricultural sector. For months ACP nations were pleading for a price reduction of no more than 19 percent, phased in over an eight-year period rather than two as the WTO had been suggesting. For the ACP, the ruling was a major blow not only because the 18 sugar-producing countries would lose $300M a year in revenues, but also because the EU maintained its original offe...
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