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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has made it clear that it will not countenance the creation of certain special tax regimes within the European Union for so-called coordination centres, that provide services including banking, marketing, insurance and logistics to companies within an international group.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
INDIGO Books & Music Inc. and the Canadian Booksellers Association have gone to the Federal Court of Canada to annul last month’s federal government decision to let Amazon.ca operate in Canada, despite regulations requiring a bookseller to be majority Canadian owned.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked the EU Council of Ministers to formally ratify the new International Cocoa Agreement 2001.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNDETERRED by the scientific world’s comprehensive ignorance of the deep-sea environment, the United Nations’ International Seabed Authority is pressing ahead with research projects that will help it estimate the effect of submarine mining on species that have yet to be discovered.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOBACCO companies should be made subject to tougher auditing controls, to enable customs and other regulators to better detect any diversion of products onto the black market, an International Conference on Illicit Tobacco Trade has concluded.

Staged in New York by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, with the assistance of the United Nations and World Health Organisation, a conference working party decided that “all persons engaged” in the tobacco sector could “be licensed at a national or sub-national level.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PROPOSED international regulations that would have ruled a new product is legally created when tobaccos are blended will probably be rejected, with the chairman of a special World Trade Organisation rules of origin committee recommending that they be deleted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN unkind moments, critics of the insurance industry might say that the sector revels in misfortune, making money out of pessimism and encouraging its clients to prepare for the worst. Of course, like most unconditional statements about business, the truth is far off and is a lot more murky.…

KEITH NUTHALL
APPLICATIONS made by Nicaragua and Germany for the trade in two hardwoods to be controlled under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) have been supported by the CITES secretariat. The species are big-leaf mahogany (Brazilian mahogany) and tree-of-life (pockwood or sonora guaiacum).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is channeling Euro 2 million into a legal aid and reform programme in Kosovo, to build an effective judicial system in this war-torn and UN administered Balkan province. Money will be directed to the Kosovo Chamber of Advocates, which received aid last year to establish a legal aid system for the poor.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ITALIAN leather manufacturer appears to have lost an international legal struggle to prevent a former German company from using a trade name similar to its own to market furniture upholstered with leather bought from alternative suppliers. In a test case at the European Court of Justice, Italian Leather, of Bironto, Italy, has failed to establish that a ruling that it secured at Bari District Court should overrule a decision made earlier at the Regional Court, Koblenz, Germany.…