Despite increasing pressure from the European Union, BiH authorities say that Croatian exports that do not meet EU standards will not be allowed into BiH. BiH Foreign Trade Minister Mirko Sarovic said that BiH would not allow Croatia, which joined the EU in July, to dump goods in BiH that could not be sold within the EU.
The Bosnian authorities imposed the ban after Croatia joined the EU last month, because the Croatian producers were no longer subject to the Central European Free Trade Agreement, CEFTA, which maintained less stringent standards than those applied by the EU….
The European Commission said in a statement on Friday that it “regrets the current attitude of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is not in line with the spirit of bilateral free trade.”
