Croatian cigarettes "new EU requirement for Serbia"
Unless Serbia approves cigarette imports from Croatia under lower tariffs by year's end, this will be included in the framework for membership negotiations.
This shows that they always lie about no new conditions - they keep adding conditions when they want. They are always anti-Serbia and they aid Serbia's enemies against it. Serbs are fools to want to be under their thumb in the EU.
Why don't the Croats just redirect their sales to the rich and civilised EU? Surely they will get a better price and thereby enjoy a higher standard of living? Isn't this the reason countries join the EU? Or am I missing something?
Agreed quotas are part of CEFTA Agreement (Central European Free Trade Agreement) under which most goods between countries who signed it are traded customs free, with some (such as tobacco products) have quotas and low, low custom duties.
Problem is that CEFTA have been cancelled with Croatian accession to EU. Albania, Serbia, Bosnia, Moldavia...cannot export anything to Croatia duty free any more, as export to EU goes under different rules.
Same goes for tobacco quotas, that are now much lower and can be exported to Croatia (and rest of EU) only with 57% duty, and not 15% under CEFTA. This will result in loss of revenue for tobacco companies operating in Serbia, as well as loss of tax revenues for government of Serbia. Phillip Morris already announced lay-offs of workers in their plant in Vranje, while British-American Tobacco considers giving up on their production facilities expansion plans.
Loss of existing jobs and investments that would open new jobs is inevitable.
It is our fault, in the end...
"The source in the EU says that it is a custom that the country joining the EU keeps the privileges which it had under an agreement with third countries before the accession and Serbia should have taken that into account before even entering the dispute with Croatia."
I think we should re-examine this whole EU thing, or we might end up saying - "..we should have taken that into account before even entering EU..." one day.
Agreed quotas are part of CEFTA Agreement (Central European Free Trade Agreement) under which most goods between countries who signed it are traded customs free, with some (such as tobacco products) have quotas and low, low custom duties.
Problem is that CEFTA have been cancelled with Croatian accession to EU. Albania, Serbia, Bosnia, Moldavia...cannot export anything to Croatia duty free any more, as export to EU goes under different rules.
Same goes for tobacco quotas, that are now much lower and can be exported to Croatia (and rest of EU) only with 57% duty, and not 15% under CEFTA. This will result in loss of revenue for tobacco companies operating in Serbia, as well as loss of tax revenues for government of Serbia. Phillip Morris already announced lay-offs of workers in their plant in Vranje, while British-American Tobacco considers giving up on their production facilities expansion plans.
Loss of existing jobs and investments that would open new jobs is inevitable.
It is our fault, in the end...
"The source in the EU says that it is a custom that the country joining the EU keeps the privileges which it had under an agreement with third countries before the accession and Serbia should have taken that into account before even entering the dispute with Croatia."
I think we should re-examine this whole EU thing, or we might end up saying - "..we should have taken that into account before even entering EU..." one day.
This shows that they always lie about no new conditions - they keep adding conditions when they want. They are always anti-Serbia and they aid Serbia's enemies against it. Serbs are fools to want to be under their thumb in the EU.
Why don't the Croats just redirect their sales to the rich and civilised EU? Surely they will get a better price and thereby enjoy a higher standard of living? Isn't this the reason countries join the EU? Or am I missing something?
Agreed quotas are part of CEFTA Agreement (Central European Free Trade Agreement) under which most goods between countries who signed it are traded customs free, with some (such as tobacco products) have quotas and low, low custom duties.
Problem is that CEFTA have been cancelled with Croatian accession to EU. Albania, Serbia, Bosnia, Moldavia...cannot export anything to Croatia duty free any more, as export to EU goes under different rules.
Same goes for tobacco quotas, that are now much lower and can be exported to Croatia (and rest of EU) only with 57% duty, and not 15% under CEFTA. This will result in loss of revenue for tobacco companies operating in Serbia, as well as loss of tax revenues for government of Serbia. Phillip Morris already announced lay-offs of workers in their plant in Vranje, while British-American Tobacco considers giving up on their production facilities expansion plans.
Loss of existing jobs and investments that would open new jobs is inevitable.
It is our fault, in the end...
"The source in the EU says that it is a custom that the country joining the EU keeps the privileges which it had under an agreement with third countries before the accession and Serbia should have taken that into account before even entering the dispute with Croatia."
I think we should re-examine this whole EU thing, or we might end up saying - "..we should have taken that into account before even entering EU..." one day.
This shows that they always lie about no new conditions - they keep adding conditions when they want. They are always anti-Serbia and they aid Serbia's enemies against it. Serbs are fools to want to be under their thumb in the EU.
Why don't the Croats just redirect their sales to the rich and civilised EU? Surely they will get a better price and thereby enjoy a higher standard of living? Isn't this the reason countries join the EU? Or am I missing something?
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