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Is the EU – Pacific States Interim Economic Partnership Agreement about to cover Nieue, Tonga and Tuvalu islands too? Compliance and business opportunites
The EU – Pacific States Interim Economic Partnership Agreement is a free trade which, currently, covers from a side the European Union from the other one Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands. The EU grants 100% duty-free and quota-free access to all imports coming from Pacific EPA countries. The access to the EU market is permanent, full and free to all products. Pacific EPA countries phase out duties partially and gradually as follows The preferential treatment under this EPA requires The compliance of the good with the principle of direct transport for which the preferential treatment applies only to products which are transported directly between a Pacific State and…