EU's planned tobacco curbs break WTO rules, Malawi says

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EU's planned tobacco curbs break WTO rules, Malawi says

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/eus-planned-tobacco-curbs-break-wto-rules-malawi-181027640--finance.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/sCOXoJ7.sK6nSSXvO0lAQQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-03-15T181027Z_1_CBRE92E1EHJ00_RTROPTP_2_FRANCE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Office workers smoke on the pavement of their office in Nice" align="left" title="Office workers smoke on the pavement of their office in Nice" border="0" /></a>By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The European Union's plans for tough new anti-smoking rules would break international trade rules, Malawi has told the World Trade Organization, signaling a potential legal challenge from the developing world. Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries, is concerned that EU plans to make cigarettes less attractive to new smokers will hurt a sector which provides more than 60 percent of its foreign exchange earnings, according to a WTO survey in 2010. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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