SA HAS lost patience with the EU’s stance on the alleged effects of South African citrus fruit with black spot on EU orchards and is taking the issue to the WTO. SA will also challenge the EU’s continued threat to ban SA’s citrus fruit exports. SA’s citrus industry annually sells about 600,000 tonnes of fruit, including oranges, lemons, limes and tangerines, to Europe. If the EU closed its market to citrus from SA, the local economy could lose R26bn, and more than 60,000 jobs. Pheeeew!!!!! DTI Minister Rob Davies said on Thursday SA was left with no choice but to take on the EU at the WTO, a move that will make history as SA becomes the first African country to take the EU through the WTO’s dispute resolution process. Do oranges have Ebola too?
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 04:52:48 +0000
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