Empire was no footnote to Müller-­Armack. He devoted an entire chapter of his memoirs to the ­matter of the associated territories. He recounted that the French and Belgian negotiators sprang association as a "surprise" condition for ratification on the final day of negotiations, which pushed the negotiation of tariffs for individual products late into the night. Müller-­Armack zeroed in on the question of bananas at the "turbulent night session . . . ​offering re­sis­tance to the very last" to the proposal that bananas from outside of the Common Market be burdened with a 20 ­percent tariff—­itself an artifact of the Italian protection of their colonial Somali banana crop. … Even ­after the negotiations technically ­were concluded, Müller-­Armack won the chance to draft a last protocol with Robert Marjolin to be included as an annex in the final version. Completed between the final negotiations in Paris and the treaty's signing in Rome, the so-­called Banana Protocol created a crack in the tariff wall of the Common Market by securing renewable access for West Germany to duty-­free bananas from beyond the protected African producers of the Eu­ro­pean empires and the French overseas territories in the Ca­rib­be­an.

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 629