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MMTA lobbies against change in EU import tax rules

LONDON (Metal-Pages) 20-Oct-09. A proposed change in the way import taxes and VAT are applied on import transactions in the European Union has the metals trade, and chemical and electronic industry worried.

The Minor Metals Trade Association is among nearly twenty industry federations, including those representing freighters and the electronics industry, that wrote to the European Commission on 18 November asking it to halt a proposed change in taxation ...

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