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BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL tea production in 2003 reached a record high of 3.15 million tonnes, 75,000 tonnes more than in 2002, and although traded tea fell by 2.6% to 1.4 million tonnes, prices remained stable, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BID to clear the confusion over the definition of terrorist attacks within insurance policies has been made by the world’s largest think-tank, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

It has issued detailed guidelines for the industry, helping companies and governments adequately define such attacks so they can be included in policy coverage and exclusions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has declared Canada officially free of bird flu, six months having passed since the last registered case of the disease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed that the outbreak had been confined to the Fraser Valley area of British Columbia province.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, has launched an ‘HIV/AIDS Guide for the Mining Sector’, which it says can be used by other industries, especially in developing countries, on minimising the exposure of their workforce to the disease.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN tobacco industry is poised on the brink of major change, with the country’s manufacturers considering comprehensive leaf import programmes that could undermine the sustainability of the country’s domestic growing sector.

This change is being lead by the country’s largest cigarette manufacturer, Imperial Tobacco Canada, which outlined a proposal in the spring of 2004 that would alter the current two-tiered pricing system for domestic and exported tobacco leaf in the 2005/2006 season.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has dismissed a bid by Swedish Match to overturn a European Union (EU) ban on oral tobacco products, such as the company’s ‘snus’. It and tobacco importer Arnold André launched an ECJ case alleging that the 1992 directive introducing the ban broke EU treaty provisions guaranteeing the freedom of movement of goods around the Union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed allowing fast-track conditional marketing authorisations for medicines treating serious, chronic or life-threatening diseases. Its tabled regulation also covers designated orphan drugs and medicines for emergency situations recognised by the European Union or the World Health Organisation.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYKE
A RENOVATION and expansion of Yangon International Airport, Myanmar, is to be completed by the end of 2005 at a cost of US$36 million. The country’s construction ministry, private Myanmar company Asia World, Japan’s Taisei Corp., and Singapore architectural consultants CPG are involved in the scheme, the 7-Days journal reported.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TEXTILE exporters loading products onto a ship before January 1 may have to secure import authorisations from the European Union (EU), even if the goods arrive after that date, the deadline for abolishing quotas for World Trade Organisation member countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FORMAL decision has been taken by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to abolish all remaining textile and clothing import quotas for World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries from January 1. It means 210 quotas affecting exporters from Argentina, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand will go.…