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- <text id=91TT2440>
- <title>
- Nov. 04, 1991: World Notes:Trade
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 04, 1991 The New Age of Alternative Medicine
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 53
- World Notes
- TRADE
- The 12 Become 19
- </hdr><body>
- <p> After two years of tortuous negotiations and a marathon,
- 16-hour final session, the 12 members of the European Community
- last week agreed with the seven-nation European Free Trade
- Association to form the world's largest trade bloc by 1993. The
- new European Economic Area will extend from the Arctic to the
- Mediterranean, embrace 380 million consumers, and account for
- 43% of world trade.
- </p>
- <p> The treaty text of more than 1,000 pages includes such
- details as how many trucks can transit Austria and how many cod
- can be taken off Norway. In general, it requires EFTA to adopt
- most E.C. commercial practices, paving the way for a near
- doubling in the Community's size by the year 2000. EFTA
- countries can still maintain their own farm policies. Disputes,
- and there surely will be some, will be adjudicated by an
- independent joint court.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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