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KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has prioritised measures within an EU action plan improving developing countries’ commodities trade, especially cotton. The first steps taken by the European Commission and member states should include developing trade flows through regional deals such as EU-ACP (African, Caribbean, Pacific) agreements, and promoting commodity-based public-private partnerships.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has agreed guaranteed prices for sugar traded with India and its ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) partners until June 2005. They are for raw sugar: Euro 52.37/100 kilograms; and white sugar: Euro 64.65/100 kilograms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has admitted Mozambique to the EU’s sugar market access agreement with producing countries in the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) block.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and 16 Caribbean countries have launched negotiations to strike a 2008 trade deal, that should boost rum exports into Europe. The spirit is already the eastern Caribbean’s largest export to the EU, (11 per cent of sales – worth around Euro 320 million in 2003), with import quota restrictions removed from 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EASTERN Caribbean governments and the European Commission have launched talks to strike a bi-regional trade deal that would especially ease the import of Caribbean sugar and bananas into the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and 16 Caribbean countries have launched negotiations to strike a trade deal by 2008, that should boost Jamaican bauxite exports into Europe. The mineral is already the eastern Caribbean’s largest non-food export to the EU, (eight per cent of all the region’s foreign sales being aluminium-related products – worth around Euro 223 million in 2003).…

BY MARK WILSON
AWASH with recently-passed legislation and newly-established Financial Investigation Units, the small nations of the Caribbean have transformed their money laundering controls since the mid-1990s. In 2000, five Caribbean island jurisdictions made up one-third of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of fifteen non-cooperative countries and territories, each of them with ‘serious systemic problems,’ in the words of a FATF review published on June 22 of that year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WATER utilities involved in development work overseas can now tap a Euro 1 billion budget approved last week (22-3) by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers, earmarked for water and sanitation projects in African, Caribbean and Pacific island developing countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WATER utilities involved in development work overseas can now tap a Euro 1 billion budget approved last week (22-3) by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers, earmarked for water and sanitation projects in African, Caribbean and Pacific island developing countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOZAMBIQUE will be admitted to the European Union’s special sugar market access agreement with producing countries in the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) block of (mostly) former colonies, following a European Commission inquiry into its sugar export industry.…