WTO backs US in banana dispute
The World Trade Organisation has ruled in favour of a US complaint against EU banana imports, a US trade official said. The EU has given a group of former colonies a small quota of duty-free exports to Europe, while taxing all Latin American bananas -many grown by US-based companies. The banana dispute is the WTO's longest-running, and the current EU import regime replaces one deemed in breach of WTO rules in 2001 after a complaint by several American nations. Thomson, Geneva