Search Results for: World Trade Organisation

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been accusing the United States of having double standards over agricultural subsidies, by pushing for grant cuts and free trade at the World Trade Organisation, whilst supporting handouts at home.

EU agriculture commissioner Franz Fischler has been especially vocal, following the vote in the US Congress for a Farm Bill, which includes a ten-year increase in price-linked support for farmers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been authorised to open negotiations with Iran on forging a trade agreement, a deal that would inevitably focus on the country’s vast mineral resources; Brussels thinks that trade with Iran has enormous potential and has an interest in its government abiding by World Trade Organisation rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has tried to undermine support for Philip Morris, Japan Tobacco and British American Tobacco’s “International Tobacco Product Marketing Standards” campaign, ahead of the scheduled talks at its Geneva headquarters to negotiate global rules for tobacco control.…

BY MIKE FOX
THE HISTORIC political changes, which swept across Europe in the previous decade, have also brought huge changes to the world of aviation; the European Civil Aviation Conference, (ECAC), has welcomed 16 countries from the region as members since 1990.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
AIRLINES and airports have always claimed to put the comfort and well-being of their passengers to the top of their lists, and many already set out in a charter or other document what standard of service their customers can expect.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation has launched a review of its anti-dumping and countervailing rules, as part of the agreement to embark on a new general round of negotiations.

Ministers agreed at their summit in Qatar, for talks “aimed at clarifying and improving disciplines,” on these protective duty regimes.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE ENGINEERING and power group Malaysia Mining Corp is to buy a US$ 505 million stake in Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia’s newest port. The company told the Malaysian stock market last Tuesday that it had purchased a 50.1 per cent holding in the country’s newest port in Tanjung Pelepas, in a move designed to expand its infrastructure business.…

KEITH NUTHALL
FROM the beginning of next year exporters of medicinal products will find it easier to sell in Japan following completion of a Mutual Recognition Agreement between that country and the EU.

The deal includes a Good Manufacturing Practice agreement under which both sides will agree to honour each other’s testing, certification and approval of products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE APPELLATE body of the World Trade Organisation 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. The panel found that Mexico had “inadequately considered the impact of dumped imports on the (Mexican corn syrup) industry.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN pharmaceutical companies dilute imported medicinal ingredients to make a final product, they have in most instances legally created a new locally manufactured medicine, the rules of origin committee of the World Trade Organisation has ruled.

The decision means that worldwide, such products would in future be affected by duties, quotas and other import and export regulations relating to the country where they were diluted, rather than where the ingredients were produced.…