The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization

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7XXh[l_Wj_edi ฀ ฀ African, Caribbean, Pacific (signatory powers to the Lomé Convention) ฀ Association of European Banana Producers ฀ Banana Framework Agreement ฀ s banana growers associations ฀ Common Agricultural Program (of the EU) ฀ Caribbean Community (originally the Caribbean Community and Common Market) ฀ Caribbean Banana Exporters Association ฀ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ฀ Central Intelligence Agency ฀ Central Statistics Office ฀ departementes d’outre mer (overseas departments of France) ฀ Dispute Settlement Board (of the ) ฀ Dispute Settlement Understanding ( ) ฀ European Community ฀ European Currency Unit ฀ European Development Fund ฀ European Economic Community ฀ Economic Partnership Agreement EU European Union ฀ Food and Agriculture Organization ( ) ฀ first come, first served ฀ ฀ General Agreement on Trade in Services ฀ General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ฀ Intergovernmental Organization ฀ Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture ฀ International Institute for Management and Development ฀ International Monetary Fund ฀ International Railways of Central America ฀ import substitution industrialization ฀ International Union for the Conservation of Nature ฀ s less-developed countries ฀ most favored nation ฀ North American Free Trade Agreement (United States, Canada, Mexico) ฀ National Economic Research Institute ฀ s nongovernmental organizations ฀ nontraditional agricultural export ฀ Organization of American States ฀ Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ฀ Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ฀ Single European Market ฀ St. Lucia Banana Growers Association ฀ Stability of Exchange (EU- mechanism) ฀ System for Minerals (EU- mechanism) ฀ transnational corporation ฀ Trade Policy Review Mechanism ฀ Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights ฀ tariff-rate quota ฀ United Brands (successor to ) ฀ United Fruit Company (the United) ฀ United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ฀ Union of Banana Exporting Countries ฀ / United States/Labor Education in the America’s Project ฀ United States Trade Representative ฀ Windward Islands Banana Growers Association ฀ Windward Islands Banana Development Corporation ฀ World Trade Organization . The four subsystems of the global banana trade ...