Search Results for: World Trade Organisation

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNICAL specialists are approaching agreement on international rules of origin for industrial minerals; these would state the degree of processing required for a raw material to be considered a new product.

The decisions would mean 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 processed, rather than where they were mined.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally adopted a regulation that will force the aquaculture industry to label their fish and fish products as being farmed or cultivated in a bid to better inform consumers and help officials police the Common Fisheries Policy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CLOTHING importers should witness an acceleration in the scrapping of quotas restricting cargoes they can purchase abroad, because of an agreement struck at the recent summit of the World Trade Organisation, in Qatar. Ministers agreed that the implementation of the WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, (which will scrap most quotas by 2005), should be speeded up, especially for small suppliers.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
PERHAPS the greatest dilemma facing air transport in the new millennium is the need to balance the demand for airspace from passenger and cargo carriers, with the expectation of ever-improving safety in our skies.

Through its Safety Regulation Commission (SRC), Eurocontrol coordinates efforts to achieve consistent high levels of safety in air traffic management within the European Civil Aviation Conference, (ECAC), area.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY report from the World Trade Organisation has concluded that the growth in global commerce has fallen steeply and is now expected to reach just two per cent, compared with much healthier estimates at the start of the year and a 12 per cent boom in the year 2000.…

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
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 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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL crimes are in many ways the most damaging of offences, given that they can harm millions of people, whether through damaging the ozone layer, increasing pollution levels or damaging biodiversity. The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, (UNICRI), has published a study on this modern scourge.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN ceramic flags and tiles are glazed – a complex process, involving intense and controlled heat treatment – potteries will have legally created a new locally manufactured product, the rules of origin committee of the World Trade Organisation has ruled.…