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BY ALAN OSBORN
IT’S not quite “back to the drawing board chaps” for sugar reform in the European Union (EU) now that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has formally ruled against the present system but some new thinking is surely needed – and quickly.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has rejected European Union (EU) calls for countries to have the right to impose aviation fuel taxes on all airlines operating within their territories. ICAO’s general assembly listened to opposition from the US, China, Brazil and Russia, postponing any decision until 2007, at the earliest.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU has appealed against a WTO ruling that its sugar exporters are getting more subsidies that they should under global trade rules. However, the ruling, now confirmed by the WTO, could help the European Commission push its reforms of the EU sugar common market organisation onto unwilling member states.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) has asked the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to extend definitive countervailing duties imposed on Indian exports to the EU of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film to Brazil and Israel. Brussels fears that Brazilian and Israeli companies are being used as fronts to funnel PET into the EU market, evading the duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has launched work to create a global standard for corporate social responsibility, giving the Brazilian and Swedish governments the task of piloting the development of these guidelines. Detailed proposals will be shortly issued by ISO, launching three months of debates before preliminary decisions on their scope and content can be made.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRAZIL and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) are setting up an International Forum on Creative Industries. Based in Brazil, it will help developing countries generate wealth from creative industries, such as the recording, photography, commercial art, music production and films.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lifted a remaining requirement for 20% of Brazilian poultry meat exports into the European Union (EU) to be tested for residues of nitrofuran antibiotics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lifted a remaining requirement for 20% of Brazilian poultry meat exports into the European Union (EU) to be tested for residues of nitrofuran antibiotics. All such cargoes had been tested after October 2002, with the proportion eased to 20% this March following improvements in Brazilian production standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AMERICAN government is going into overdrive to challenge a World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel ruling that some of its cotton production subsidies and export subsidies illegally break global commerce rules. Washington has already announced an appeal against the decision on a complaint from Brazil that US subsidies have depressed global prices and enabled American exporters to unfairly elbow out competitors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission arguments backing its proposed reform of the EU sugar regime have been strengthened by an interim decision by the World Trade Organisation that EU subsidies to the sugar sector are illegal. The claim was brought by Brazil, Thailand and Australia.…