Drugs warning over banana trade
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Your support makes all the difference.Commonwealth banana growers could be tempted to turn to the drugs trade unless the European Union fights to protect the industry they rely on, a senior Labour MP warned yesterday.
Donald Anderson, chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, expressed his fears ahead of a meeting in Brussels today at which the European Commission will study a report by the World Trade Organisation that rules against the EU's attempts to protect banana exports from former British and French colonies on the grounds that they are anti-competitive.
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