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European trade commissioner to leave post

23/11/2009

With the debate over duties on imports of leather shoes from Vietnam and China still raging, the trade commissioner of the European Commission, Catherine Ashton, is to take up a new post in Brussels. Her departure will mean a third different trade commissioner for the European Union in only 13 months.Her predecessor, Peter Mandelson, left the post ...

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