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Bananas & More Bananas
By Staff
Mar 14, 2007, 10:24

Bananas & More Bananas

Costa Rica Bananas

A Costa Rican banana worker prepares freshly harvested bananas for shipping on the Select Fruits of the Tropics banana plantation near Parrita, Costa Rica, some 100 miles southwest of San Jose.

This growing town is located on the road to Costa Rica's most popular vacation destination: Manuel Antonio, home to Manuel Antonio National Park.

Costa Rica is the world's second largest banana exporter. European restrictions on banana imports will face a new challenge at the World Trade Organization next week when Ecuador will ask the group to review a decade-old trade dispute. Latin American countries and the United States have long contended that European Union tariffs on the fruit amount to unfair trade discrimination.