date:Jun 19, 2012
stry: quotas must go by 2015
Korter said that paying high transport costs to bring sugar in from elsewhere was simply not viable and confectioners would have to operate in a very uncertain and volatile market if quotas were not eliminated by 2015.
It has to be 2015. The current situation is not acceptable,she said.
Korter added that EU confectioners export around 10% of world production and on-going barriers to trade from extended sugar quotas would harm their competitiveness on the global st