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The long road to labeling settlement products

By Daoud Kuttab The European Commission’s Nov. 11 “interpretive notice” clarifying “the application of existing [European] Union legislation on indication of origin of products to products originating in Israeli-occupied territories” was not arrived at quickly or easily. In fact, it dates back to the mid-1980s. In 1986, the issue had involved the legalities of how a Palestinian manufacturer in Ramallah could export […]