{"id":93813,"date":"2018-10-11T20:36:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T20:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/eu-threatens-trade-action-against-myanmar-cambodia-over-rights-record-6\/"},"modified":"2018-10-11T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T20:36:52","slug":"eu-threatens-trade-action-against-myanmar-cambodia-over-rights-record-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/eu-threatens-trade-action-against-myanmar-cambodia-over-rights-record-6\/","title":{"rendered":"EU threatens trade action against Myanmar, Cambodia over rights record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has ramped up trade pressure on Myanmar and Cambodia over rule of law and human rights concerns.<\/p>\n<p>European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstr\u00f6m said Friday that both Myanmar and Cambodia risked losing preferential access to the EU market under the blocs so-called Everything But Arms arrangement, which permits tariff-free access for all exports except for weapons and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, High Representative Federica Mogherini and I have therefore notified Cambodia that we are launching the process for the withdrawal of their Everything But Arms preferences,\u201d Malmstr\u00f6m said <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/commissioners\/2014-2019\/malmstrom\/blog\/myanmar-and-cambodia_en\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in a blog post<\/a> from a ministerial meeting in Austria. \u201cWithout clear and evident improvements on the ground, this will lead to the suspending of the trade preferences that they currently enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner said the EU will also send an emergency mission to Myanmar in the coming days to carry out investigations related to human rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a clear possibility that a withdrawal [from Everything But Arms] could be the outcome,\u201d Malmstr\u00f6m said.<\/p>\n<p>Several EU countries are already considering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-weighs-new-sanctions-against-myanmar-over-rohingya\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">expanding sanctions<\/a> against Myanmar in the wake of calls from the United Nations for senior military officials from the country to be investigated for genocide against the Rohingya population.<\/p>\n<p>In Cambodia, the ruling Cambodian Peoples Party led by longstanding Prime Minister Hun Sen won elections in July after he arrested Kem Sokha, the leader of the now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), on accounts of treason. The EUs step, if implemented, would threaten the all-important garment industry.<\/p>\n<h2><em>Read this next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/\u201chttps:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-president-donald-trump-calls-brett-kavanaugh-protesters-rude-elevator-screamers\/\u201d\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump calls Kavanaugh protesters rude elevator screamers<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has ramped up trade pressure on Myanmar and Cambodia over rule of law and hu..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EU threatens trade action against Myanmar, Cambodia over rights record - 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