NAMIBIA will not be punished for refusing to join Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland in signing the interim economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) in Belgium on Thursday.
Lutz Güllner, spokesperson for EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton, told The Namibian from Brussels that the markets of the 27-nation bloc will remain quota- and tariff-free to local beef, grapes and fish.
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