But one EU official has calculated that if standard EU duties were applied to cigarettes in Romania, the price of a packet would go up by 600%.
One holidaymakers' institution was certainly lost under the EU: duty-free shopping within Europe.
For instance, coffee that has been neither roasted nor decaffeinated enters the EU duty-free; decaffeinated and roasted, it incurs a tariff of 7.5%.
The EBA initiative was intended to promote "sustainable development and good governance in the developing countries" by allowing the "least developed countries" (Cambodia included) to import products into the EU duty-free and quota-free.
But critics say food prices would fall as Britain would be able to buy its groceries from anywhere in the world without EU duties.
To avoid customs checks after Brexit, the government wants an unprecedented system where the UK would collect EU duties while having the freedom to set different tariffs on goods destined for the British market.
"What was clearly going to be affected by abolition [of EU duties] were our duty-free shops.
For the expected scenario of 5.6% by 2020, the study estimated that biodiesel production increases would be mostly domestic, while bioethanol production would take place mainly in Brazil, regardless of EU duties.
Under Lomé (and now Cotonou) Agreements, ACP canned tuna enters the EU duty-free, compared with a 24percentt duty incurred on tuna from Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia.
