NewsWhore
10-04-2007, 02:30 PM
Import Representatives from Liquors and Wines (RIVLAS) have voiced their opposition to the proposal by the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery that would exclude whiskeys and wines from liberalization under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that Caricom is negotiating with the European Union. Officials from RIVLAS say that excluding spirits would contradict the treatment that whiskeys and spirits receive with the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). RIVLAS cited article 5.1 and the Declaration XXXI of the Cotonou Agreement that states that the DR must give the same preferential treatment to the EU as it does to any developed nation, such as would be the case of the United States under the DR-CAFTA.
Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso left for Jamaica yesterday to participate in a special Cariforum Countries Heads of State and Government meeting with the hopes of pounding out the details of the EPA. Among the details that need working out are regional preference, similar treatment by the DR towards the EU as is done under the DR-CAFTA and the amount of products that will be excluded, among others.
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Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso left for Jamaica yesterday to participate in a special Cariforum Countries Heads of State and Government meeting with the hopes of pounding out the details of the EPA. Among the details that need working out are regional preference, similar treatment by the DR towards the EU as is done under the DR-CAFTA and the amount of products that will be excluded, among others.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)