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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representatives Office has been trying to play down the impact a new free trade deal with central American countries will have on US sugar producers. A briefing note however admits widened import quotas will equal 1.2 per cent of US production, rising to 1.7 per cent within 15 years, rising from 99,000 to 140,000 tonnes.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane
THE AUSTRALIAN footwear industry is cautious about the new Australia-US Free Trade Agreement. Almost all lines will immediately be tariff-free if the deal is ratified, with 17 products losing tariffs over the next decade. The industry has not yet received the final list of products affected, however.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A US Court of Appeals decision has dealt a serious blow to California wine producers by ruling that the state of New York may ban out-of-state wine producers from selling directly to local residents. The ruling says that New York could require that wineries establish a physical distributor (in the form of a shop or office) before being allowed to ship wine to consumers.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A NUMBER of major American drinks companies have signed up with

online music operators in a flurry of cross-promotional activity following growing public awareness of the fact that illegal music downloading could run the risk of legal action for consumers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THIEVES looking to cash in on the current high prices of industrial scrap non-ferrous metals have stolen more than CDN$2 million (US$1.49 million) worth of nickel and aluminium in Montreal Canada. Several thousand kilograms of nickel cathodes and roughly 3.6 tonnes of aluminium were carted off in separate night raids in what police have identified as “professional heists”.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A SMALL US brewer, wanting to give off that frontiersman feel, decided to use a famous image of America’s early-19th century explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark for an advertising campaign. Kansas City’s Boulevard Brewing Co. chose a 40-year-old logo featuring their silhouettes but rather than pointing a finger west, one of the explorers would now hold a bottle of Boulevard Pale Ale.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA should triple its air capacity to adapt to changes in the next 15 to 20 years, says the US Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta. He said immediate expansions in airport and air traffic control facilities to deal with growing numbers of jet taxis, private jets, airliner traffic and unmanned aerial vehicles.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN spirit producers are toning their marketing muscles these days because of the broader scope for advertising they have enjoyed since the end of a prohibition-hangover induced 50-year self-imposed ban on electronic media advertising.

It has only been since 1996 – when this Seagram defied this moratorium – that distillers have been able to realise this advertising potential.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THERE is a two-word prefix that seems to be coming out of every American food manufacturer’s new-product department: Low-Carb.

The US is fighting an obesity problem. A staggering (in some cases – literally) 64 per cent of the population is overweight and the number of people carrying more than 100 pounds over their ideal weight has quadrupled in the last 20 years to one in every hundred.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is investigating a proposed deal effectively allying the European Union’s (EU) two companies enriching uranium for the nuclear industry. Brussels fears the purchase by France’s Areva of a 50 per cent stake in the Enrichment Technology Company from German-Dutch-British Urenco could cut competition and raise nuclear fuel prices, given enrichment represents about 35 per cent of fuel production costs and seven per cent for nuclear electricity generally.…