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The Banana Regime of the European Union, the Caribbean, and Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Paul Sutton
Paul Sutton*
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University of Hull in England
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The tone of European-Latin American relations in recent years has been strongly influenced by the issue of bananas. At stake has been the future of the banana trade between the European Union (EU) and Latin America, which, even if small in relative size (constituting less than 5% of Latin America’s exports to the EU), has loomed large in international political calculations. This article seeks to make sense of a very complex, and still developing, situation by identifying the interests of the various parties directly concerned. The first part examines the background, the problem, and the solution to this issue as set out in the adoption of a new banana regime (NBR) in the EU.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , Summer 1997 , pp. 5 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1997

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