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KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRALIA and the United States have agreed to mutually remove tariffs on textile and clothing traded between them, with duties on products meeting set rules of origin standards being phased out within 15 years. This, said a US Trade Representative Office note on a new American-Australian free trade deal, would “promote new opportunities for US and Australian fibre, yarn, fabric and apparel manufacturing.”…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A NEW volcanic gas and ash detector created by Australian scientists could enable the airport and airline industries to save both money and lives. The ‘Ground-based Infra-Red Detection’ (G-bIRD) system is being developed by Australia’s CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) and the country’s Tenix Defence Electronic Systems division.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT will be several years before Canada’s trading partners admit Canadian live cattle, according to a report from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The document – written after BSE was detected Alberta, but before its discovery in the United States – suggests that effective diplomacy will be needed to convince countries, rather than more scientific measures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL conference on the faltering World Trade Organisation (WTO) agricultural liberalisation negotiations has been told that full agreement is now unlikely to be achieved until 2007. If this comes to pass, it would drive a coach and horses through the existing January 2005 deadline for concluding the Doha Development Round, of which the agricultural talks form a key part.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representatives Office has been trying to play down the impact a new free trade deal with central American countries will have on US sugar producers. A briefing note however admits widened import quotas will equal 1.2 per cent of US production, rising to 1.7 per cent within 15 years, rising from 99,000 to 140,000 tonnes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Australia have struck a free trade deal that will ease access into the US market for Australian wool exporters. A note from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said: “For our wool industry, an industry priority of zero tariff for greasy wool, a premier Australian export industry, will be achieved within four years, and for other wool items within 10 years.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCIENTISTS in the United States have found new evidence that carbon dioxide, the main emission linked to global warming, is cooling and shrinking the atmosphere’s outermost layers, causing its air to be thinner. According to research conducted by scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, the average density of air 60 miles upwards has dropped by 10 per cent over the last 36 years, and could decline by 50 per cent by the end of the century.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Australia have struck a free trade deal that will ease access into the US market for Australian wool exporters. A note from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said: “For our wool industry, an industry priority of zero tariff for greasy wool, a premier Australian export industry, will be achieved within four years, and for other wool items within 10 years.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN ONLINE database of information on how pathogenic bacteria respond to different environmental conditions in food has been established by Britain’s Institute of Food Research and the Eastern Regional Research Centre’s Microbial Food Safety Research Unit, in the United States.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) sub-committee on fish trade has ordered the promotion of cost-effective and global standards to trace a fish’s progress through the commercial chain, from harvesting to consumption. At a meeting in Bremen, Germany, many national representatives expressed concerns about health and safety issues affecting the international fish trade, including consumer perceptions over problems such as antibiotic residues in farmed fish.…