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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>
</body></article>
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