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Byron Dorgan: “We were fighting with Europe about bananas and we don't produce them. Those bananas were coming from the Caribbean, and…”

On the recordMay 1, 2002
We were fighting with Europe about bananas and we don't produce them. Those bananas were coming from the Caribbean, and Europe would not let them in.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

Editor's note · Context

Discussing trade disputes related to banana imports from the Caribbean.

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