Lome Convention


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Lome Convention

A former agreement between the European Community and 71 developing countries allowing for the duty-free export of most goods to Europe, provided they did not compete with European goods. It also increased foreign aid to the developing countries. Most developing participants were former British, Belgian, Dutch or French colonies. The Lome Convention came into effect in 1976 and was renegotiated a number of times before the World Trade Organization ruled it anti-competitive in 1995. In 2000, it was replaced by the Cotonou Agreement.
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(106) As trade was diverted from non-associated countries to those associated with the Yaounde Conventions, the trade concessions did not necessarily aid the formerly colonialized countries, as "EEC imports declined from 5.6 percent to 4.2 percent." (107) When the United Kingdom began participating in the EEC trade regime, the EEC eventually expanded its membership during the Lome Convention to include former British colonies from Africa and the Caribbean in 1975.
EU-ACP economic partnership agreements: modern colonialism disguised in violation of the WTO
It accorded ACP partners enhanced preferential treatment in comparison to the Lome Conventions. Cotonou will remain valid until 2020.7 According to an analyst the Lome Conventions had strong elements of intergovernmentalism for they were strongly supported by France and the UK.
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The relations of these countries with the EU were previously organized within the successive Lome Conventions (I-IV).
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Central to the origin of the Anglo-French Caribbean rum rivalry is an understanding of the Lome Convention, which was first signed in February 1975.
The Lome Caribbean rum rivalry for European market hegemony/La Rivalidad del ron caribeno en Lome por la hegemonia sobre el mercado Europeo/Apres Lome, les Rhums Caribeens en Guerre pour Regner sur le Marche Europeen
I remember my boss asked Barre if he minded that the new Lome Convention might have a civil rights clause.
Once upon a time in somalia
This trade agreement, which allowed all ACP states to export many goods duty free or with reduced tariffs, was finally signed as the Lome Convention in 1975.
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It supplants the 1975 Lome Convention and aims to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable development and the integration of the ACP countries into the world economy.
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION RULING FAVORS REGION'S BANANAS, PORTENDS DISASTER IN THE CARIBBEAN
These include the European Union's Lome Convention and the United States' Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), Andean Trade Preference Act (APTA), and U.S.
Reducing poverty: a blueprint for successfully concluding the Doha Trade Round
(20) ACP General Secreteriat, "On the Conclusion of the Successor Agreement to the Lome Convention", Press Release, http://carryon.one world.org/apcsec/gb/press/037900_e.htm3/25/00.
Redefiniendo la relacion entre la Union Europea y los paises de Africa, el Caribe y el Pacifico *
importance of the trade provisions of the Fourth Lome Convention for the
The WTO banana dispute settlement and its implications for trade relations between the United States and the European Union
The CDE is financed by the European Development Fund (EDF) under the Lome Convention office.
EU BUSINESS AID OFFICE OPENS
Despite two decades of preferential access to European union (EU) markets granted to ACP countries under the Lome convention, their export performance has not improved substantially.
ACP Countries "Think Regional". (ITC News)

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