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KEITH NUTHALL
CANADA has joined formal World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes talks initiated by Brazil against the United States regarding American government subsidies to producers, users and exporters of upland cotton. The Brazilians claim that these payments break the WTO’s Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, Agreement on Agriculture, and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union and its allies at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) negotiations over the creation of a global register for protected geographical indications in the wine and spirit trade have made a significant concession, which may be the basis for a future deal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGREEMENT in principle has been secured at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over a proposed EU Regulation writing into European law the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) convention on the control of harmful anti-fouling systems on ships, (AFS Convention).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TURKISH-OWNED chain of Russian shopping malls and supermarkets is to receive a US$70 million loan from the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation to almost double the company’s retail space in the country. Ramenka already operates four shopping malls and 10 supermarkets in the Moscow area under the name Ramstore.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is rare that an international organisation report on a scandal involving crime, corruption, war and environmental degradation names and shames high profile companies, but that is what is contained within the latest United Nations (UN) Security Council report on the Congo.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU ministers have ordered that new textile trade agreements agreed last month between the European Commission and Cambodia and Nepal be provisionally implemented from January 1, pending formal ratification. All parties have agreed they should last until December 2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has set out its stall at the World Trade Organisation’s agricultural liberalisation talks, offering the US and other key trading partners the carrot of a 55 per cent cut in “trade distorting domestic farm support” subsidies, if they reciprocate with similar reductions.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Textile Manufacturers Institute (ATMI) is voicing its opposition to the Bush administration’s recent tariff-slashing proposal for the ongoing World Trade Organisation Doha Development Round, saying the trade plan will further open the market to China and wipe out US$13 billion worth of US business.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TURKISH and Ecuadorian governments have struck a deal to solve their dispute at the World Trade Organisation over Turkey’s import restrictions on Ecuador’s fruit exports.…

BY PHILIP FINE

US textile companies that make small labelling errors will soon be getting a break from the country’s Federal Trade Commission. Its Textile Corporate Leniency Policy will allow such mistakes as fibres not being listed in order, a label being covered by another label and a shortened word such as poly used in place of polyester for most businesses.…