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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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has recommended that systematic testing for antibiotic residues should be introduced for all imports of Brazilian poultry meat, products and preparations, after checks revealed that cargoes have been contaminated with restricted nitrofurans.…

Keith Nuthall
BRAZIL and the European Commission have agreed a Memorandum of

Understanding paving the way for a formal textile trading agreement which, says Brussels, “significantly improves access for textile products on each other’s markets.” The deal removes the quotas on Brazil’s textiles and clothing exports to the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ISRAELI Foreign Trade Risks Insurance Corporation has reinsured US$53 million of US$83.5 million in guarantees posted by the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank. The security covers Israeli telecommunications company ECI Telecom’s investment in Brazilian company Global Village Telecom Ltda, which wants to construct and operate wireless telephone networks in Brazil.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SWITZERLAND has complained to a key World Trade Organisation committee that its beef imports are being unfairly restricted by the USA because of concerns that they are contaminated with BSE. It has claimed at the WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Committee that the US should not, for example, be insisting on the onsite inspection of Swiss meat plants, because the Office International des Épizooties has classified Switzerland as having a low incidence the disease.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
CIGARETTES have changed a great deal in recent years though not all smokers may realise by just how much. Once it was commonplace to roll your own, using local tobaccos. Today the market is dominated by filters and international brands, many of them ranking among the world’s best-known consumer products.…

BY MARK ROWE and RICHARD HURST
WORLD sugar prices are heading for a three-year low and are projected to fall below six US cents a pound as a result of record harvests in a number of countries, particularly in Brazil, which is accused of “over-production.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVERY minute of every day a million smokers light up a cigarette made by BAT and the company’s goal is that every one of them is perfect. How does BAT manage this, and at the same time meet its production, technical and environmental challenges when operations are on such a colossal scale ?…

BTY MARK ROWE
THE TOBACCO industry has not been exempt from the problem of young children working in developing countries. But in the past 12 months BAT has taken significant steps to address the question of child labour. Earlier this year it helped launch the Elimination of Child Labour in Tobacco Growing Foundation, which supports community-based initiatives to address the issue.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
1902-1912

British American Tobacco was created on September 29th 1902 as a joint venture between Imperial Tobacco Company of the UK and the American Tobacco Company of the US following a fierce trade war. The parent companies agreed not to trade in each other’s domestic territory and to assign trademarks, export businesses and overseas subsidiaries to the joint venture.…