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BY KEITH NUTHALL
CROATIA is being challenged at the World Trade Organisation by Hungary over its introduction in June of a ban on all meat imports from any country allowing the use of all feed containing animal protein, and – in some circumstances – fish meal.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE PARIS-BASED perfume business Sephora is in talks to buy L’Etoile, Russia’s largest cosmetics chain. L’Etoile, which is based in Moscow, has 101 stores in the city and also owns outlets in St Petersburg. The company’s sales amounted to US$90 million last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation has failed to move its Doha development round ahead at its summit in Cancun, Mexico, with talks collapsing over proposals on investment rights. The WTO General Council will convene before Christmas to plot a way forward.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has declared itself well satisfied with the results of the World Radiocommunication Conference, staged by the International Telecommunications Union, which it says has allocated enough spectrum to allow the efficient roll-out of new wireless and broadband comms systems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHAIRPERSON of the World Trade Organisation’s agricultural talks has warned that productive bilateral discussions behind the scenes will be required for the oncoming WTO summit in Cancun, Mexico, to have any chance of striking a ‘modalities’ deal setting the overall goals for the negotiations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU has demanded a disputes panel be established at the WTO to hear its complaint that Australian quarantine rules against food products are so tough, they break world trade laws. Brussels says the import of tomatoes, fresh citrus fruit, apples, peaches, nectarines, cucumbers, lettuce, carrots, apricots, edible eggs and egg products, uncooked pigmeat and uncooked poultry meat is unfairly restricted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank is lending US$15 million’s worth of Indian rupees to sugar company Balrampur Chini Mills Limited, partially financing the construction of a new integrated greenfield sugar mill, processing 4,000 tons of cane a day, in Haidergarh, Uttar Pradesh.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NON-FERROUS metal producers in the existing 15 European Union (EU) countries could see some lowering of labour costs after enlargement of the EU next year as low-paid Polish and other workers move into the higher wage countries like Germany, according to industry sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties, the world animal health organisation, has declared northern Argentina (north of the 42° parallel) free from foot and mouth disease (FMD), albeit with the help of vaccination, backdated to July 7…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to officially sanction previously agreed trade concessions for Polish confectionary exporters, until the eastern European country becomes a Member State next year. The European Commission has proposed that concessions – widening low or zero-rated import quotas for many Polish confectionary products and ingredients or removing quantitative restrictions altogether – are written into the existing EU-Poland association agreement.…