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The Elusive Tariff Equivalent for the EU Banana Market, Pedro Arias, David Hallam, Lionel Hubbard and Pascal Liu, in FAO Commodity Review, Rome, March 2006
Central American Agriculture at Stake, Preliminary Study on the Position of Agricultural Workers and Small Farmers’ Organisations in Central America on the proposed Association Agreement between the European Union and Central America, Greivin Hernández González, February 2008
A report commissioned by Banana Link and ICCO and written by Greivin
Hernandez Gonzalez, an independent consultant in Costa Rica, with support from Aseprola.
Banane: Echec Global à Genève, press communiqué (in French) from West African producer organisations following second WTO arbitration award, October 28 2005
European Communities – The ACP-EC Partnership Agreement – Second Recourse to Arbitration Pursuant to the Decision of 14 November 2001: Award of the Arbitrator, WTO, Geneva, October 27 2005
Declaration by Cameroonian and Ivory Coast exporters of bananas to the EU, Trade Ministers of Cameroon and Ivory Coast, July 2005
Evaluation of the Common Organisation of the Market in Bananas - Executive Summary, COGEA S.p.A., Rome, July 2005
EU Tariff Reform Impact on Banana Production in Latin America: A Trade Union Perspective from COLSIBA, Honduras, March 2005
FAO Trade Policy Technical Note – Bananas: Is there a Tariff Only Equivalent to the EU Tariff Rate Quota Regime? Insights from Economic Analysis, Rome, March 2005
The Evolution of the EU's Banana Regime, appendix to ODI paper (pp.29-40), London, 2004
Calculating the Tariff Equivalent to the Current EU Banana Regime, David G.Raboy, Patton Boggs LLP for Dole Food Company, Washington, January 2004
Compliance Bargaining in the WTO: Ecuador and the Bananas Dispute, James McCall Smith, George Washington University for UNCTAD, November 2003
Banana Exports from the Caribbean since 1992, NERA, London, June 2003
La Banane: Discipline Multilatérale ou Indiscipline Multinationale? Alistair Smith, Banana Link, in Passerelles (French only), Dakar, 2003
WTO Dispute Settlement in Action: An Economic Analysis of Four EU-US Mini Trade Wars, Fritz Breuss, Vienna University, July 2003
The EU Banana Regime: History and Interests, commissioned by Banana Link for EUROBAN, by Anna K. Dickson, Durham University, January 2003
Banana Workers, Farmers and Consumers Call for Dramatic Changes to the European Banana Import Regime, press release issued jointly by COLSIBA, WINFA and EUROBAN, Brussels, November 2002.
The New Banana Import Regime in the European Union: A Quantitative Assessment, Hervé Guyomard and Chantal Le Mouel, INRA, Rennes, July 2002
Banana Splits: Policy Process, Particularistic Interests, Politcal Capture, and Money in Transatlantic Trade Politics, Olivier Cadot and Douglas Webber in Business and Politics Journal, Vol 4 No 1, Berkeley, April 2002
Integrated Assessment of Trade Liberalization and Trade-Related Policies: A Country Study on the Banana Sector in Ecuador, UNEP, Geneva/New York, 2002
Impact of the WTO Banana Ruling on Dollar Banana Producing Countries, Daniel Gomez Gaviria, July 2002
Multilateral Agreement on an EU Banana Trade Regime – A Political Compromise, Scott Barfield, Sheffield University, 2002
Le Conflit de la Banane, Aurélie Portalier and Laure Limousin, 2001
The Development of the Windward Islands Banana Export Trade: Commercial Opportunity & Colonial Necessity, Peter Clegg, Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference Volume 1, 2000 Papers
Briefing Note on the EU/US Banana Dispute - History of the Dispute, Department of Trade & Industry, UK, June 2000
Thirteen Questions You Were Dying to Ask about the Interpretation of the WTO Panel Ruling by Anne-Claire Chambron, Banana Link, 1998
Documents Available to order from Banana Link
• TRADE Briefing - Banana Trade: Development dynamic or dynamite: paper on the European banana market 1995 4.00 (eng, esp, fr)
• In Search of a Sustainable Banana Regime: towards sustainable production and trade in bananas by Anne-Claire Chambron & Alistair Smith 1998 10.00 (eng, esp, fr)
Websites
• European Commission webpage with links to all the official documentation relating to the WTO dispute on bananas including dispute panel reports, and to European Commission communications. Go to 'WT/DSO27 bananas' under "Complaints Against EC"
• Caribbean Banana Exporters Association
• Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission - site includes Commission proposals and communications to the European Council
• Global Issues - includes links to other sites
• WTO - Dispute Settlement pages: Panel, Appellate Body and Arbitrators reports and documents
• WTO - 'State of Play' Bulletin on trade disputes that have been brought before the WTO
• WTO - What's Coming Up in the next weeks and months on the WTO agenda
• Official Journal of the European Communities
• Caribbean Council for Europe - This Week in Europe
• United States Mission to the EU - search under banana dossier
• General Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific
• Europes Forum of International Cooperation
• Friends of the Earth International
• International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (for updated information)
News Service Websites
• News Unlimited (The Guardian/Observer) Britain -there is a whole section on bananas in the Special Reports/International section
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