EU to call for ban on Canadian seal imports

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The European Union is considering trade sanctions against Canada in what would be the most significant challenge yet to the country's annual seal cull, due to start later this week.

Stavros Dimas, the EU's commissioner for the environment, has said he would soon be making proposals just as the Canadian government sets this year's quota of 275,000 young harp seals to be shot or cudgelled with sharpened clubs, then skinned for their pelts.

A high proportion of the white pelts pass through European ports on their way to customers in Russia and China.

Mr Dimas would be putting forward suggestions, "based on how we see the ban being implemented", said a spokeswoman yesterday. "The commissioner is very concerned at the inhumane way that baby seals are killed," said a spokeswoman for Mr Dimas. "Last year, we sent a team of experts to observe the cull who were shunned by the sealers and not allowed on the boats. What the team saw did not alleviate the commissioner's worries."

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EU to call for ban on Canadian seal imports - 26/03/08
www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/eu-to-call-for-ban-on-canadian-seal-imports-800603.html

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