EU foreign ministers have “warned” Israel they will take a tougher approach to exports originating in illegal settlements on Palestinian land.
The ministers in a statement on Monday (14 May) detailing Israel’s long-term campaign to expropriate Palestinian farmers in the West Bank said: “The EU and its member states reaffirm their commitment to fully and effectively implement existing EU legislation and the bilateral arrangements applicable to settlement products.”
Under EU law settler products are excluded from preferential import tariffs in the 12-year-old EU-Israel association agreement. 
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