Banana cases
Banana cases: this refers to two trade disputes brought for adjudication in the GATT and the WTO. The first was a case launched in 1993 in the GATT by Columbia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Venezuela against the European Economic Community (EEC) and decided in early 1994. It arose from a change in the EEC import regime for bananas which resulted in differing market access depending on whether they originated within the EEC, traditional ACP states, non-traditional ACP states or third countries. The complainants charged that this violated the non-discrimination provisions of the GATT, and the EEC also had broken its tariff bindings. Altogether, the panel was asked to find on the consistency of the import regime with about ten GATT articles. On many of them it found that the EEC had no case to answer. Importantly, however, it decided that the manner of EEC's preferential tariff treatment of banana imports was contrary to the most-favoured-nation treatment required by GATT
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