5th round of negotiations starts between EU and CA In Guatemala

Guatemala - The negotiating teams start today the 5th round of talks about the Association Agreement. The focus is on better offers to access the European markets and to flexibilize the rules about the origin of industrial products for export to Europe.

Last week EU and CA negotiators exchanged a third commercial offer and a chapter of investment and services. CA bring to the table an offer of access the EU markets to up to 84% of the exportable offer and the demand to include important products like sugar, ethanol, shrimp, coffee, pineapple and bananas. The expectations of CA are to obtain similar privileges as the General System of Preferences (GSP and GSP +) to have immediate access to the European markets with 90% of the exports duty free.

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