BRUSSELS: The EU launched a process on Monday that could temporarily strip Cambodia of its valuable trade privileges with the bloc over “serious and systematic” rights abuses.

Brussels has repeatedly warned Cambodia it risks losing the highly preferential tariff arrangement it enjoys, known as “everything but arms” (EBA), a move that would cripple the country’s billion-dollar garment industry, its largest formal employer.

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