Costa Rica to negotiate EU banana import tariff

Tholen - Costa Rica has hope to structure a dialogue between Latin-American banana producing countries and the EU next January. During the recent WTO Hong Kong round it was agreed that the Norwegian minister of Trade, Johannes Store, will mediate for the coming year, but it was not decided how a dialogue between the parties will be structured. Nonetheless, Manuel González, the Costa-Rican minister of Foreign Trade, thinks that whatever dialogue or structure will be formed, it will change nothing to the right of Latin American countries to execute their rights to the common conflict resolution of the WTO.