Regional negotiating body points to ‘favourable’ agri provisions in EPA

In the Caribbean-EU Econo-mic Partnership Agreement (EPA), for a period of two years leading up to full duty-free and quota-free access, CARIFORUM rice exporting countries will be given quotas of 187,000 tonnes for 2008 and 250,000 tonnes for 2009.

The quotas will be duty-free compared to the approximately