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This 14 page paper looks at the position of the Windward Island now that the protection for the banana industry is being lost as a result of a World Trade Organisation ruling. The country had benefited from favourable treatment, but is loosing this in 2007. This paper makes the case for ongoing support and gives suggestion for strategies that may be used for the industry on the islands to survive. The bibliography cites 15 sources.
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14 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TEwindbana.rtf
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A recent World Trade Organisation ruling has meant that protection they received from the EU with favourable tariffs is going to disappear by 2007. The Islands saw these protective measures
as levelling the playing field allowing them to compete with the three major producers that control 64% of the global production and are able to bully and exert political influence.
The Island face potential financial ruin when the protection disappears and have to develop and adapt, The paper argues there is a
moral and an ethical responsibility ion the EU to support these islands, but that the islands also need to take actions for themselves to ensure long term survival. This is
suggested at using the difference in terms of sweetness and also the development of organic production as a way of differentiating the bananas and EU developing organic quotas that are
not geographically limited. 2. Introduction The Windward Islands are former colonies of EU countries, the development that took place whilst a colony and the subsequent support have reflected this
former status and the support that may be argued as a moral responsibility. The support has been in the form of subsidised and favourable import agreements for bananas. The economy
of these islands has been built on this favourable trading relationship with the EU. The problem is that the favourable trade agreements were not permissible under World Trade Organisation
(WTO) regulations and the benefits are being withdrawn totally by 2007 leaving the islands with major difficulties. The case came about due to the protests from The beginning of
this dispute is often cited as beginning in 1993 (House of Commons, 1999). However the real beginnings can be traced back to the 1950s (Clark, 2002). It was at this
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