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SERBIA & MONTENEGRO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has suspended for at least three months the preferential zero tariff on sugar imported into the European Union from Serbia & Montenegro. Brussels acted because of concerns at European anti-fraud office OLAF, that local rules of origin controls are too weak to prevent sugar being illicitly exported to Serbia & Montenegro and then re-exported into the EU.…
INTENSE SWEETENERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved a European Commission proposal to allow the use within the EU of two new intense sweeteners (sucralose and an aspartame-acesulfame salt) and reduce the use of the sweetener cyclamate.…
BRAZIL - COCUNUTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRAZIL has extended its safeguard duty regime against imports of shelled and shredded dried coconuts, imposing it on Malaysian exports. The south-east Asian country had previously been exempt, along with 87 other developing countries said a note to the World Trade Organisation.…
DUTY FREE SALES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DUTY-FREE shop sales of confectionary rose last year by 6.5 per cent, despite some catastrophic hits being taken by a world travel industry still reeling from September 11. “Confectionery has been one of the fastest-growing categories in travel retail in recent years,” said a paper by market analysts the Moodie Report.…
SUGAR EXPORTS
BY MARK ROWE
THE FIRST meeting of the world’s five largest sugar exporters has agreed to co-ordinate efforts to boost prices in the commodity’s international market from current record lows. Meeting in Bangkok, representatives of Thailand, Australia, Brazil, South Africa and Guatemala agreed to speed up co-operation and seek to lift world prices without raising domestic retail prices.…
CANADA BSE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALTHOUGH an investigation by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency did not discover another case of BSE, following the lone outbreak that has devastated Canada’s beef exports, further instances may well follow, a member of the International Committee on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy has warned.…
THAI POULTRY
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THAILAND’S agriculture officials are predicting that their country’s chicken exporters will eat into key Asian and European markets, because of bans imposed on Chinese exports following its recent outbreaks of bird flu. Japan imposed a temporary ban after detecting the virus in Chinese duck products and the Netherlands’ chicken flu outbreak will also boost Thai exports, Bangkok officials say.…
RUSSIA - BRAZIL
BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA is to resume imports of Brazilian boneless beef and pork. Russia, a major new market for Brazilian beef exporters, banned purchases from Brazil last December because of concerns over the disease bovine vesicular stomatitis. Brazil says the export herds have been free of the disease for at least one year.…
CAP REFORM
BY ALAN OSBORN
CRUCIAL negotiations to reform the EU’s common agricultural policy will resume next Wednesday after France effectively vetoed a compromise deal on Thursday night following nearly a week of talks. Britain and five other Member States had approved the deal which involved a scaling down of original European Commission plans to “decouple” payments to farmers from production.…
LIVESTOCK TRANSPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission-funded research project has claimed that further reforms are required to the EU’s live exports legislation, concluding that stressful transport conditions are not only posing problems to animal welfare but also to meat quality and consumer perceptions of the industry.…