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BY PAUL COCHRANE

MOROCCO’S US$1.37 billion tobacco market is undergoing a transformation following Altadis’ full buyout of the country’s tobacco monopoly earlier this year, with the distribution process to be overhauled and leaf production increased and diversified away from dark tobacco.…

BY MARK ROWE AND PAUL COCHRANE

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JUST as chocolate sells well in cold countries, so do soft drinks flourish in hot countries, which would suggest that North Africa and the Levant presents an inviting face to the international drinks market.…

BY MARK ROWE AND PAUL COCHRANE

INTRODUCTION

JUST as chocolate sells well in cold countries, so do soft drinks flourish in hot countries, which would suggest that North Africa and the Levant presents an inviting face to the international drinks market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has struck a key fishing agreement with Morocco, allowing EU fishermen to supply the EU with Moroccan fish from March 2006-2010, covering 60,000 tons annual catches of small coastal species, such as sardines and anchovies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA and Morocco have struck a free trade deal that will swiftly remove all Moroccan import duties on American pistachios and pecans, and within five years, on walnuts and cherries. The US will phase out tariffs on all Moroccan food exports, mostly within 15 years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE US government has released further details of its free trade agreement with Morocco. Processed poultry will gain immediate duty free access to Morocco, while lower tariff quotas have been opened for US fresh beef and poultry, to be expanded in the next few years.…

Keith Nuthall
THE MOROCCAN government has informed the World Trade Organisation of how it will implement the third stage of its commitments to scrap or widen import tariffs under the WTO’s Agreement on Textile and Clothing.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENT representatives are to meet at Marrakesh, Morocco, from October 29 to November 9 to add detail to the Kyoto Protocol global warming deal struck this summer in Bonn between all major industrialised nations excluding America. The Moroccan meeting should allow delegates to agree procedures and institutions needed to make the protocol fully operational.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and Morocco have failed to strike an agreement which would allow Spanish and Portuguese fishing boats to take catches in Moroccan waters, bringing to an unsuccessful end six months of detailed discussions. The result is that the previous agreement, which expired in 1999, and which allowed 500 European boats to exploit catches including tuna and shrimp, is not expected to be renewed.…