St. Lucia and St. Vincent did not have local experts they could send to Geneva, Switzerland to argue their case before the WTO, so they hired outside counsel to represent them. So St. Lucia and St. Vincent were unrepresented in the WTO proceedings. The EU initially refused to comply with the WTO ruling, insisting it had a right and a moral duty to aid its former colonies by providing a market for their bananas. The Caribbean nations that produce bananas are democratic countries with long-established traditions of human and worker rights. They have been good friends to the United States.
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