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BY KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA’S Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has seized 45 shahtoosh shawls and two shirts, acting on information from the Wildlife Protection Society of India. The items were discovered in Delhi and included one seven metre length of uncut shahtoosh fabric.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DUTY-FREE sales of tobacco rose last year, despite some catastrophic hits being taken by a world travel industry still reeling from September 11. An increase of 6.1 per cent to US$2.3 billion was also the first year-on-year rise for years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the World Health Organisation securing approval for its long debated Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, attention is now turning to ratifications by member countries: 40 are needed for it to come into force, Last minute concessions were made at the WHO to bring dissenters such as Germany and the United States on board, who had objected to the convention’s insistence on signatory governments banning tobacco advertising; both countries said this broke constitutional guarantees of free speech.…

BY KEITHNUTHALL
THE CREATION of an international joint-venture, manufacturing oxo chemicals – which are a key ingredient of many synthetic fibres – has been agreed by the European Commission. It has approved the 50/50 initiative involving German chemical producers Celanese AG and Degussa AG; it will trade as European Oxo Chemicals (EOC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CLEARER picture of the international funds and cooperation deals required to boost the reliance of the world on renewable energy sources has emerged from the first conference of the Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition. The 80-country organisation – established at the city’s world summit on sustainable development last year – forged a consensus on the shape of financial instruments that could promote green energy worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Heath Organisation announced that 40 countries and the European Union signed the new global Framework Convention on Tobacco Control within a week of it being agreed. Signatories included Britain, Spain, Iran, South Africa, Bangladesh and France.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
US and EU negotiators have been trying hard to broker a deal on agricultural liberalisation for the WTO’s September 10-14 summit, which is supposed to give impetus to the ongoing Doha development trade round.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court has thrown out a bid by two environmental groups to stop the Norwegian government offering tax privileges to natural gas exploration companies working in the inhospitable Snøhvit field, off the far north coast of Norway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CREATION of an international joint-venture, manufacturing oxo chemicals – which are a key ingredient of many solvents – has been agreed by the European Commission. It has approved the 50/50 initiative involving German chemical producers Celanese AG and Degussa AG; it will trade as European Oxo Chemicals (EOC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN fish products are imported into Europe, and processed, when can they be marketed as European fish products? The European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court has been asked to rule on whether the defrosting, heading, filleting, boning, trimming, salting and packing of fish imported frozen whole from outside the European Economic Area (the EU, plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein) creates a product under European law sufficiently different to be considered of European origin.…