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Il précise que l’accord entraînera une première réduction tarifaire de €28 par tonne qui « s’appliquera rétroactivement à compter de la date de paraphage de l’accord par toutes les parties. Les droits de douane seront ensuite diminués au début de chaque année pendant sept ans par tranches annuelles (€143, €136, €132, €127, €122, €117, €114), à compter du 1er janvier 2011 ».
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The EC has published a memorandum setting out the precise details of the banana deal agreed in late 2009. It states that the deal will see a first tariff cut of €28 per tonne which will ‘apply retroactively from the date when all parties initialled the agreement. The tariff will then fall again at the start of each year for seven years in annual instalments (€143, €136, €132, €127, €122, €117, €114), starting on 1 January, 2011’. It adds that ‘once the WTO certifies the EU’s new tariff schedule, Latin American banana-supplying countries will drop all their disputes on bananas with the EU at the WTO, and any claims they made against the EU after new member countries joined the Union, or when the EU changed its banana tariff in 2006’. However should there be no agreement on agriculture in the Doha Round negotiations, then ‘the EU will freeze its cuts for up to two years’. More precisely, this means that in the case of there being no Doha Round agreement on agriculture, then ‘once the EU cuts its tariffs to €132 per tonne, it will make no further cuts for up to two years, until the end of 2015 at the latest; then from 2016 at the latest, the EU will continue cutting its tariff each year, as agreed … until the tariff reaches €114 per tonne on 1 January 2019 at the latest’. This will slow down the process of tariff reductions by two years.
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