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Council adopts approach to address ‘carousel fraud’ threat in emissions allowance trading

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
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  • European Union
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  • January 22 2010

Faced with the threat of "carousel fraud" in the field of greenhouse gas emissions, the European Council has adopted an approach on a draft directive that would give Member States the option of applying the reverse charge mechanism, until 30 June 2015, to the supply of EU emissions allowances

E.U. and Latin American countries' initial deal ending the ‘banana wars’

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • Central & South America, European Union
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  • January 22 2010

The E.U. and Latin American countries have initialed a deal that marks the end to the decades-long trade dispute over bananas

ECJ rules that customs duties are payable on imports of armaments

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • European Union
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  • January 22 2010

The ECJ has ruled that Finland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Greece and Denmark violated Community law by withholding customs duties that were payable on imports of armaments and materials for civil and material use

E.U. and South Korea initial new free trade pact

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • European Union, South Korea
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  • November 25 2009

Marking a major step in E.U.-South Korean trade relations, the E.U. and South Korea have signed a free trade deal that is expected to bring an estimated 19 billion euro in new trade to European exporters

European Commission publishes new combined nomenclature

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
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  • European Union
  • -
  • November 25 2009

The European Commission has published a regulation that sets forth the EU’s customs tariffs for 2010

Advocate-General opinion regarding EU-Israel free trade and occupied territories

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
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  • European Union
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  • November 25 2009

In a recent advisory opinion, the Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) argued that EU member states cannot extend preferential customs treatment to goods originating in the occupied territories unless those goods are certified by the PLO

E.U. settles spirits dispute with Uruguay

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
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  • European Union, Uruguay
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  • November 25 2009

Uruguay has removed a tax on spirits that the E.U. viewed as an unfair trade barrier