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SRI LANKA GAS
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMNAYAKE
THE SRI Lanka government is considering proposals to set up a series of power plants fuelled by natural gas, with companies from Australia, the Middle East and Malaysia are among those making proposals to Columbo. Ministers have highlighted plans for an Australian company to install three 350MW natural gas power plants over nine years.…
FOOD WORLD COLUMN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
The USA’s ConAgra Foods Inc. will launch squeezable Parkay margarine in November, in ‘Electric Blue’ and ‘Shocking Pink’ colours, in child friendly, 10-ounce bottles that are easy to grip. This is the latest product aimed at pleasing children via their visual fun factor competing with the likes of H.J.…
COCACOLA NESTLE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a proposed restructuring of Coca-Cola Nestlé Refreshment Company, an existing iced tea and coffee joint venture. The changes will enhance CCNR’s autonomy from its parents and broaden its geographical scope across the European Union.…
QATAR WTO SUMMIT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CAIRNS Group of the WTO, representing food exporting countries such as Australia and Argentina, has been pressing during the preparations for its planned launch of a general round at its November summit in Qatar, for an intensification of the discussions in the ongoing agricultural round.…
ARGENTINA-EU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the WTO against Argentina, whom it accuses of wrongfully imposing countervailing duties on imported EU canned peaches. It has staged formal talks on the issue with Buenos Aires.…
DISEASES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the spending of Euro 114 million for financing BSE and scrapie monitoring in livestock and another Euro 40.45 million for the eradication and monitoring of 13 major animal diseases in the Member States, also including scrapie, along with brucellosis, tuberculosis, rabies and salmonellosis.…
COURT OF AUDITORS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
The EU’s financial watchdog, European Court of Auditors, has concluded in a special report that the Commission’s BSE strategy was “basically sound, but its effectiveness has been severely limited “because of institutional procedures and poor implementation of existing legislation by most Member States.”…
FOOT AND MOUTH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lifted the foot and mouth disease inspired ban on exports of pigmeat from parts of the UK, namely most of Scotland, bar Dumfries and Galloway, eastern England, and parts of north Wales. The ban for Northern Ireland was lifted in June.…
CORN SYRUP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE APPELLATE body of the WTO has ruled that Mexico’s imposition of anti-dumping duties on imports of high fructose corn syrup from the US breaks world trade rules and so should be amended or scrapped.…
HEALTH CHECKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WTO’S Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures has agreed information that should be demanded by food importing countries and supplied by exporting countries to make sure that products are safe. The deal is designed to make it easier for developing countries to prove that their products are healthy enough for sale abroad.…