Friday, January 14 2005 13:40 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: In a bid to remove irritants to bilateral trade, European Union (EU) today (Jan 14, 2005) agreed to review anti-dumping measures against products from India and decided that Indian goods not meeting sanitary standards would not be destroyed.

"They (European Union) have agreed to review anti-dumping measures against products from India," Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said after a two-hour long meeting with the new EU Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson.

"They have also agreed not to destroy consignments which do not meet phytosanitary standards," he said.

At the meeting, India also raised issues like market access, problems faced by marine exports to European Union countries and new General System of Preferences.

"It was also reiterated that issues like agriculture, non-agriculture market access and services get equal importance in negotiations," Nath said. "We want to see the steps that take Doha Development Agenda forward and discussed how to move forward with the new European Commission," he said.