date:Aug 08, 2012
No World Trade Organisation (WTO) challenge has yet been launched, but CARICOM and non-US Caribbean rum producing countries are upset by allegedly illegal US subsidies given to multinationals in its territories for production and marketing.
Namely in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) and Puerto Rico, with CARICOM upset that the US territories are passing millions of dollars in rum cover over taxes back to the multinationals, in alleged violation of WTO rules.
In a July 26 op-ed piece for theHuffi