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1 mar 2024 · In this research paper, the authors analyzed changes in the 2000–2021 physical volumes and trends of international trade in bananas, identified the world’s largest exporters and importers of this tropical fruit, and assessed changes in their positions in these flows during the studied period.
16 wrz 2022 · Societal Impact Statement. Bananas are the world's most popular dessert fruit and a staple starch crop for millions in low- and middle-income countries. The banana export trade that supplies North America, Europe, and other wealthy nations has a history fraught with exploitation and conflict.
Bananas are among the most traded fruits in the world. In 2017 alone, 22.7 million tonnes of bananas, excluding plantains, were traded, representing almost 20% of global production that year.
6 maj 2016 · The OECD defines a free trade area as a group of “countries within which tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers between the members are generally abolished but with no common trade policy toward non-members”.
The five leading banana exporting countries (Ecuador, Colombia, the Philippines, Costa Rica and Guatemala) accounted for more than 80 percent of global banana exports. Ecuador is by far the main supplier of bananas in the world market, supplying more than a third of the total volume of bananas traded internationally.
12 cze 2009 · Free trade and tariffs were some of the fundamental reasons on which the banana wars were fought. The EU favors trade preferences, higher tariffs, and import licenses, where as the US prefers lower tariffs and free trade to encourage competitiveness and the constant search for lower prices [28].
For decades, the banana economy has been one of the key examples of trade injustice and power concentration in the hands of a few multinational companies which has affected the lives of thousands of small banana farmers and workers.
