{"id":11583,"date":"2011-04-18T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=11583"},"modified":"2011-04-15T18:55:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T17:55:47","slug":"eu-grants-palestinian-produce-duty-free-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/04\/eu-grants-palestinian-produce-duty-free-access\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Grants Palestinian Produce Duty-Free Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>EU foreign policy chief Ashton announces deal during Brussels meeting with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Fayyad.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The European Union announced Wednesday [13 Apr 2011] it would grant duty-free access to produce from the West Bank and the Gaza strip in a bid to support Palestinian state building.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was announced during a visit by Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who was in Brussels for a meeting with international donors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Facilitating Palestinian trade is a crucial element of the state building process which the EU is supporting both politically and financially,&#8221; EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The EU said the agreement would be valid immediately and would apply for 10 years to &#8220;all agricultural products, processed agricultural products and fish and fishery products&#8221; except fruit and vegetables, which would be subject to a duty if their price was below a set level.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/diplomacy-defense\/eu-grants-palestinian-produce-duty-free-access-1.355800\" >Go to Original \u2013 haaretz.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Join the BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>campaign to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation, the apartheid wall, and its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong> <strong>PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/strong> <strong>BARCODE<\/strong><strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong><\/span>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union announced Wednesday [13 Apr 2011] it would grant duty-free access to produce from the West Bank and the Gaza strip in a bid to support Palestinian state building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}