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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DUTY of security companies, auctioneers, luxury goods retailers and customs and tax officials, to abide by the EU money laundering directive’s commitments on record keeping and notifying suspicious transactions, has been written back into the proposed law, following its second reading by the European Parliament.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
US President George W. Bush has said that he would be happy to cooperate with the Canadian authorities to secure a share of gas reserves in the Northwest Territories, if drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge is too tricky because of stiff opposition from Congress and environmentalists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce has released an anti-counterfeiting guide, describing the wide range of options that companies can take, when trying to protect products and packaging against counterfeiters, especially by using specialist inks and dyes.

These include overt and covert methods, about which the guide gives practical advice to companies as to which to employ in a particular situation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA and the US have failed to solve the looming softwood lumber dispute at the Summit of the Americas, in Quebec City.

The US International Trade Commission will probably now hear claims by the American timber industry that Canada has flooded the US with cheap timber illegally and investigate how it contributed to the closure of 150 American lumber mills.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE ADVISORY Committee on Paper and Wood Products of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has met to discuss issues related to climate change and the paper and wood products industry, and review recent progress made in forestry and the environmental certification of forest products.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A DRAFT timetable for the setting up of anti-dumping and countervailing duties by the United States, on softwood lumber from Canada, has been released by the US International Trade Administration. It says that the American Department of Commerce will probably start inquiries on April 23, making a preliminary judgement on anti-dumping by September 10 and countervailing duties by June 27, a final judgement on November 26 and September 10, respectively, with duties being imposed on January 10 next year and this November 1.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT on the world’s environmental concerns by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, (OECD), has claimed that “tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates,” saying that “non-OECD regions, (developing countries), will lose another 10 per cent of their forests by 2020.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN House of Commons could have paved the way for the introduction of warning labels on bottles and cans of alcoholic drinks, after government and opposition MP’s voted overwhelmingly 217 to 11 in favour of using the health warnings.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
COCA-COLA Canada and Toronto-based Parmalat have launched high-level talks to resolve a potential legal dispute over which company has the rights to use the advertising slogan “Life tastes good”, a line that Coke just happens to have earmarked for a new global campaign.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
PEOPLE who drink up to four alcoholic drinks-a-day are nearly half as likely to suffer from heart failure than non-drinkers according to a recent study.

The study, recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researched the links between drinking and heart disease also concluded that people who drink one or more beverages containing alcohol per day are 62 per cent more likely to survive a heart attack than teetotallers.…