Serbia warns of possible counter-measures against Croatia

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Ministers from four regional countries have agreed their next moves in response to Croatia's new tax rates on imports of goods from third countries.

Croatia recently introduced non-tariff barriers, with fees that are 22 times higher than the previous ones.

The ministers representing Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Montenegro held an urgent meeting in Sarajevo on Monday, and said afterwards that Croatia violated the World Trade Organization (WTO) basic rules and principles, which the four countries had concluded individually with the EU.

As the ministers pointed out, the interests of producers from their countries have been directly endangered by Croatia's actions.

For this reason they made the following conclusions:

1. Croatia is called upon to urgently lift the discriminatory decisions on fees, which treat products imported...