The disparate banana import policies currently operating in member states of the EC are inconsistent with the Community's objective of full economic integration in 1992. Preferential trade agreements confer sizable subsidies on some African and Caribbean banana producers and disadvantage other...

Among distortions in international agricultural trade, those imposed by the European Union (EU) are the most disruptive. Under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the EU has switched from being a large net importer of agricultural products to a large exporter. This has greatly altered world...