BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 377 HINA ZAGREB, OCTOBER 4

HR-TRADE AGREEMENT-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 377 HINA ZAGREB, OCTOBER 4 CROATIA AND BOSNIA HARMONISE TEXT OF FREE TRADE AGREEMENTZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday harmonised an agreement on free trade, which should be signed by the end of next month. "I believe that all problems have been settled which were related to the free trade treaty," said Alija Izetbegovic, the chairman of Bosnia's three-man Presidency, after today's meeting of the two countries' inter-state council on the cooperation in Zagreb. Under the contract, as of 1 January 2001 Croatia will exempt all Bosnia's exports from customs tariffs, while Bosnia will gradually rescind tariffs on Croatian goods in next three years. Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said the agreement would be signed before the Zagreb summit of EU statesmen and heads of state from the western Balkans. During today's two-hour meeting the inter-state council for cooperation discussed many problems whi