EU Cuts Burma's Trade Preferences

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Subject: EU Cuts Burma's Trade   Preferences To Protest Forced  Labor

Dow Jones Business News -- March 24, 1997
                                       EU Cuts Burma's Trade
                                       Preferences To Protest Forced
                                       Labor

                                       AP-Dow Jones News Service

                                       BRUSSELS -- The European Union agreed
Monday
                                       to scrap preferenial trade benefits
for Burma's
                                       industrial and agricultural exports
to protest the
                                       use of forced labor there.

                                       'From now on Burma no longer enjoys these
                                       preferences,' said Josep Coll i
Carbo, Asian affairs
                                       spokesman for the EU head office, the
European
                                       Commission.

                                       Ministers from the 15 EU nations
approved without
                                       debate the Commission's proposal to
remove
                                       Burma from the list of developing nations
                                       enjoying special trade advantages.