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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE JAPANESE government has lost its appeal against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel ruling that had concluded the United States followed WTO rules when staging a sunset review of anti-dumping duties on Japan exports of corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL disasters cost the world US$60 billion in 2003, up from around US$55 billion the previous year, a Munich Re assessment for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has claimed. The bulk of this year’s losses were caused by weather-related catastrophes, said UNEP, which is linking them with global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL Fund for the Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is giving US$26 million to west Africa’s Burkina Faso to boost its fight against HIV/AIDS and malaria; the money will be distributed by the United Nations Development Programme.…

BY PHILIP FINE

TRADE Ministers at recent Free Trade Area of the Americas meetings have failed to strike an agreement that slashes north and south American food tariffs and subsidies. No deadlines were set to solve this rancorous issue, with the United States and Brazil opting for a solution to be struck at the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A REGIONAL Asia, far east and Pacific conference of the Office International des Épizooties (OIE) – the world animal health organisation – has called for improvements in the regions’ veterinary services for fish farming. Said an agreed communiqué from the meeting in Noumea, New Caledonia: “While aquaculture has been growing rapidly in many countries, there has been no matching expansion of a supporting aquatic animal health infrastructure.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government is to use its presidency of the European Union (EU) over the next six months to push for the consolidation of the EU internal market in energy, especially the cross-border trade in gas, where its position as an island at the edge of the continent leaves it vulnerable to supply cuts in crises.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded project has developed a technical system to search and retrieve the increasing amount of information held in digital moving image video, still photograph or audio archives. Its coordinators say that the project will be very useful for museums and research institutes who store such material.…

BY PHILIP FINE

PHILIP Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson and US Smokeless Tobacco will remove adverts from classroom editions of US News and World Report, Time and Newsweek. In June, the National Association of Attorneys General, sent letters to the four companies asking them to scrap these advertisements, claiming they violated a no-youth-marketing agreement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL accord providing for joint-research projects on transport air pollution has been struck by the European Union (EU), the United States, Japan and China. Aimed at creating a global system to measure such emissions, the deal will provide for joint vehicle testing and should lead to the next generation of European emission standards for passenger cars and light vans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIALISTS from the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation are investigating outbreaks of “atypical” BSE strains in Italy and Japan, to confirm whether they are new strains of the disease. An ad hoc group of experts from the UK, Switzerland, Italy and Japan has been convened at the OIE’s Paris headquarters to review new test data.…