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CAR RETURN TREATIES
BY PHILIP FINE
THE UNITED States may have found an effective means to recover stolen vehicles. It has signed treaties that will provide a mechanism by which automobiles that have been driven out of the country by thieves can be retrieved.…
EXECUTIVE LIFE
BY PHILIP FINE
THE UNITED States Congress is to take a close look at an allegedly fraudulent and
secret 1993 purchase of a failed California life-insurance company, a deal that has led to criticism being levelled at the US Department of Justice.…
CALIFORNIA HONEY
BY PHILIP FINE
THE CALIFORNIA honey sector has been hard hit this summer. The industry will probably produce 50 per cent less honey than last year, according to industry experts, who blame low rainfall and a lack of wild flowers. In 2001, California hives produced about 27 million pounds of honey or 15 percent of US production.…
USA COPYRIGHT CHALLENGE
BY PHILIP FINE
A LEGAL challenge this week will attempt to halt a trend of lengthening American copyright protection. The US Supreme Court was to hear a case on Wednesday (October 9) seeking to annul a four-years-old law that extended copyright protection by an additional 20 years.…
BRAZIL - EU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU ministers are expected next month (October) to approve a textiles trade deal struck between Brazil and the European Commission. It removes quota restrictions on the amount of clothing that Brazil can export to the EU. Brazil will freeze its tariff levels on EU clothing exports and not introduce new non-tariff trade barriers for the sector.…
TRADE CORP CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission could saddle imported American clothing products with protective duties of up to 100 per cent, because of a WTO ruling allowing Brussels to retaliate against the US’s use of foreign trade corporations to give its exporters illegal tax breaks.…
RULES OF ORIGIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CREATING finished leather from tanned leather, (in its wet state), is not sufficiently important a manufacturing process to warrant the final product being legally considered a new good, made in the country where it was processed rather than where it was sourced, the chairman of a special World Trade Organisation committee has advised.…
FOREIGN TRADE CORPORATION DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has published a list of exported American knitted and crocheted textile products that could be saddled with protective duties of up to 100 per cent, because of a World Trade Organisation ruling allowing Brussels to retaliate against the US’s use of foreign trade corporations to give its exporters illegal tax breaks.…
RULES OF ORIGIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CREATING finished leather from tanned leather, (in its wet state), is not sufficiently important a manufacturing process to warrant the final product being legally considered a new good, made in the country where it was processed rather than where it was sourced, the chairman of a special World Trade Organisation committee has advised.…
EUROSTAT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is storming ahead of the European Union’s league table for the export of electricity, supplying other EU Member States with 69,479 GWh in the latest year for which comparable figures are available (2000); Austria was the only other significant EU exporter, supplying 1,296 GWh, although outside the union, Norway recouped significant earnings from exporting 19,055 GWh.…