De Kanariske Øers integrering i Fællesskabets toldområde siden 1991 og den fortløbende afvikling indtil 1999 af den daværende afgift, der også sigtede på beskyttelse af den lokale produktion, har gjort den kanariske industri endnu mere følsom og sårbar over for konkurrence udefra.
The integration of the Canaries, however, into the customs territory of the European Union in 1991, and the gradual dismantling, by 1999, of the tax then in force, which was also intended to protect regional production, have accentuated the fragility and the vulnerability of the Canaries' industrial sector to external competition.