Latin American bananas, like Eastern European plumbers and accountants, are not welcome in Europe. In order to dissuade them from bothering to show up the EU imposes a quote and a tariff on them. It now proposes to replace the quota and tariff combo with a simple, far far larger tariff and no quota.
Needless to say the Latin American banana growing countries are less than impressed and are consulting m'learned friends about a WTO ruling - something that they seem practically bound to win. Now I understand the justification behind the EU's silly banana quota but it seems to me that it would be better to extend CAP subsidies to the former colonies and their banana growers rather than a tariff on everyone else. After all bananas a good for ones health so surely making them available to all more cheaply would be a good thing? However such logic apparently escapes our Eurocrats which is yet further evidence that the EU is indeed a banana republic.