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TERRORISM UPDATE ETC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TERRORIST attacks on New York and Washington DC have not just galvanised the developed world into military action, it has encouraged governments and international organisations to pass new anti-terror laws affecting travel, data protection, criminal investigations and money laundering.…
CHINA WTO
KEITH NUTHALL
IMPORT tariffs payable on fish products exported to China are to be cut, following the striking of an international deal allowing Beijing to join the World Trade Organisation. Officials at the European Commission’s directorate general for trade say that all fish exports to China will benefit from lower tariffs, though the reduction is not as great as for industrial goods.…
QATAR WTO SUMMIT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation is moving towards the launch of a general round at its November summit in Qatar, but these negotiations will only be approved if a wrangle affecting the trade in meat and other food products can be resolved.…
BEEF CONSUMPTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BEEF consumption within the European Union has continued to rise, despite the Foot and Mouth crisis, according to EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler, who maintains there is a “slow but steady recovery.” He has claimed that consumption is now just 5.7 per cent lower than the same period last year.…
POLISH CONFECTIONARY
BY BEATA PLONKA
POLAND’S two key domestic confectionary players have started negotiations to launch a joint-venture, which would between them control 10 per cent of the country’s robust confectionary market, one of the largest in Europe. The companies Jutrzenka and Mieszko want to compete more effectively with multinational competitors Nestle, Cadbury and Jacobs Suchard, which control 80 per cent of Poland’s confectionary market.…
CEYLON BISCUITS
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
SRI Lankan confectioner Ceylon Biscuits Ltd, manufacturers of Munchee biscuits, has claimed that its expansion into the Indian market has been a success and should help it reach a turnover of SLRupees three billion, (Pounds 22.5 million), in 2002.…
FOOD SUPPLEMENTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN ministers have reached “political agreement” on a proposed directive designed to harmonise the EU’s widely different national rules covering the sale of food supplements sold in special doses, in pills, capsules and sachets, such as orange vitamin C tablets.…
GUINNESS CASE LATEST
Keith Nuthall
THE THREE businessmen found guilty of colluding in an illegal share-fixing operation during the Guinness takeover of Distillers in 1980’s have failed to persuade the European Court of Human Rights to order the British government to meet a legal expenses claim of Pounds 1.26 million, even though they scored a victory in the case.…
Just Drinks
From Alan Osborn
The British drink can manufacturer Rexam plc is to sell its beverage can
plants at Runcorn in the UK and its factory in France to the German company
Schmalbach-Lubeca under a deal approved today Tuesday by the European
Commission.…
AFRICA WOMEN CONFERENCE
BY RICHARD HURST
A WOMEN in African Petroleum & Energy conference was recently held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in a bid to promote female participation in what has traditionally been a heaviily male dominated corner of a global industry not known for female influence.…