CRNM Note on CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement What Europe is Offering Africa: the Pros and Cons of EPAs
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A combination of offensive and defensive interests guided CARIFORUM interest in pursuing an EPA. In terms of offensive interests, CARIFORUM needed to bind current levels of EU preferences and immunise such preferences from WTO litigation. The recent spate of challenges to the EU’s preferential regimes for sugar and bananas under the Dispute Settlement Understanding strengthened the need to secure the existing EU preferences to ACP countries.
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