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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lost patience with the United States and has moved to impose retaliatory duties on a wide range of US clothing industry exports over a row about American foreign sales corporations, which have been deemed illegal by the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) has come into force. The 1998 protocol focuses on 16 substances: 11 pesticides, 2 industrial chemicals and 3 by-products/contaminants and tells signatory countries to eliminate any discharges, emissions and losses of these POPs, which are thought to cause birth defects and reduce male sperm counts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BINDING energy conservation targets have been proposed for European Union (EU) Member States by the European Commission, a move that could further tighten fuel economy rules for Europe’s transport sector. Brussels has proposed a general energy saving target of one per cent a year from 2006-12, measured against average energy distribution from the previous five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Canada have been asked to lift Euro 120 million of extra tariffs levied against European Union (EU) exporters following the imposition of a hormone treated beef directive that the European Commission claims satisfies a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on the matter.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has given the European Commission two months to ban the transfer of sensitive passenger data to the United States or face possible legal action. In a near unanimous resolution, MEPs said that they were prepared to take the Commission to the European Court of Justice over alleged infringements of EU data legislation caused by the transfers.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE 19th century saw imperial rivalry create the “Great Game”, when Russia and the British Empire tweaked one another’s tails in the region that following Russia’s Bolshevik revolution became known as Soviet Central Asia. The old Great Game was tied to control of India, and to gems and gold.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW SCALED-DOWN European Commission proposals to tighten controls on the EU chemical industry are unlikely to please the United States, according to Washington’s commerce secretary Don Evans. He told journalists in Brussels “I’m going to tell you that although I have not read the draft, I’m going to tell you that it’s not enough.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW SCALED-DOWN European Commission proposals to tighten controls on the EU chemical industry are unlikely to please the United States, according to Washington’s commerce secretary Don Evans. He told journalists in Brussels “I’m going to tell you that although I have not read the draft, I’m going to tell you that it’s not enough.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States government has thrown doubt on whether the China has scrapped ‘temporary’ safeguard duties that were imposed by Beijing last May on nine steel products imported from the US, tariffs that were supposed to lapse by November 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) ‘fourth committee’ (on special political affairs) has started debating atomic radiation, based on a report on the subject by the UN scientific committee. It warns that ill health is still being created worldwide by environmental ionizing radiation, notably in the Ukraine, Russia and Belarus because of the Chernobyl disaster.…