Dominica warns against threats to banana industry

May 10, 2013

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica has launched a scathing attack on countries and companies seeking to destroy the local banana industry as the European Union launched an EC$54 million (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) banana support package to help the island adjust to the new trading arrangements for bananas.
“They are the ones who challenge us at the WTO (World Trade Organization) conscious of the ramifications. They are the ones who manufacture the inputs and sell them to us at exorbitant and prohibitive prices.
“Simply put, dear friends, we can’t buy so get out. These countries only see the world, profitably and are blinded towards the plight of their sister small and vulnerable states, members of the same multi-lateral organisation, the WTO”.

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