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BY KEITH NUTHALL
NORWEGIAN metal producer Tinfos Titan & Iron KS has appealed against an order that it and other manufacturers in Norway pay back savings gained from being exempt from a now abolished national electricity tax in 2003. It has joined Norsk Hydro and others in opposing the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority order in June that the exemptions amounted to illegal state aid.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WANT to sell cigarettes? Go east, young man. That might be the advice that tobacco companies could glean from the latest set of World Health Organisation (WHO) smoking figures. Using 2003 or latest available data, the WHO has collated percentage rate proportions of smoking adults (18 and over), compared with total populations of all but 56 countries: the overwhelming majority of nations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission under incoming energy Commissioner Lázló Kovács could look to Russia and the Ukraine as the key guarantors of Europe’s future gas and oil supplies. Kovács, a Hungarian, has told the European Parliament that he intends to establish “real cooperation” with these countries as a first priority.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPE’S Nordic countries have agreed to forge a common front against alcohol liberalisation policies in the European Union (EU) and push anti-drinking campaigns worldwide. Meeting in Copenhagen, the health ministers of Finland, Sweden and Denmark agreed to act en bloc during discussions on alcohol at the EU Council of Ministers, being joined by Norway, Iceland at European Economic Area (EEA) meetings.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has formally approved the creation of a permanent duty free quota for Norwegian exports into the European Union (EU) of certain soft drinks. A compromise deal negotiated between Norway and the European Commission, the agreement will create a duty free quota of 13 million litres for “waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweeteners and flavourings” and “other mineral waters containing sucrose and invert sugar”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NORWEGIAN government will open an annual duty free import quota of 2,360 tonnes for consignments of bonefat, bone oil and neat’s foot oil from the European Union (EU), as part of a limited trade deal negotiated with the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has agreed annual duty free import quotas for Norwegian tobacco manufacturers of 370 tonnes for “smoking tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes”. If ratified by the EU Council of Ministers, the deal would come into force next January.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU is to annually allow 2,470 tonnes of Norwegian margarine into its markets duty free, under a limited new trade deal with Norway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled details of its plans to impose temporary safeguard duties, especially on salmon imports from Norway and the Faroe Islands. It has told the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that it intends to levy Euro 522 on every tonne of unfilleted fish and Euro 722 per tonne of filleted salmon that enters the European Union (EU) over certain fixed quotas for the next six months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PERMANENT duty free quota is to be opened for Norwegian exports into the European Union (EU) of certain soft drinks, following trade talks between Norway and the European Commission. The EU Council of Ministers has been asked to approve the new arrangements, which would create a duty free quota of 13 million litres for “waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweeteners and flavourings” and “other mineral waters containing sucrose and invert sugar”.…