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NEW YORK



BY KATE REW
NEW York City Mayor, Rudolph Guiliani has called for the privatisation of JFK International Airport and LaGuardia Airport in a speech outlining his vision of their future.

Speaking at the New York-based Wings Club, Mayor Giuliani called for the consolidation of the body, which oversees the two airports into one agency, the Airport Improvement Corporation, in order to improve service and convenience, while accommodating increasing passenger traffic.…

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US TRADE REVIEW



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representatives Office has launched an environmental review of America’s existing trade agreements. It will alert Washington to potential environmental drawbacks of the deals, and will especially focus on the ongoing World Trade Organisation round on agricultural products and services.…

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MARYLAND LAW



BY KATE REW
TOBACCO farmers in Maryland are being asked to give up growing one of America’s most lucrative cash crops and sign up to a compensation programme, bringing to an end a tradition stretching back 350 years. The Governor of Maryland, Parris N.…

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FISHERIES PRODUCERS INTERNATIONAL



BY MONICA DOBIE
A BOARDROOM battle has erupted in the offices of the Fishery Producers International, a Canadian company and currently one of the largest seafood processors in North America, which was established by Canadian federal and Newfoundland governments in the 1987 to help the struggling north-west Atlantic fisheries.…

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CENTRAL AMERICA V CHILE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
NICARAGUA, Guatemala and Costa Rica have joined formal consultations launched at the World Trade Organisation by Columbia with Chile, over safeguard duties imposed by the government in Santiago on sugar exports. Columbia has questioned whether the duties are justified by economic difficulties being suffered by the Chilean sugar sector.…

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AZURIX



BY MIKE FOX
AZURIX, the troubled water subsidiary of the giant energy company Enron, has confirmed that it would like to sell its north American water interests.

Azurix has a company policy of not commenting on its plans for acquisitions or divestments, but the potential sale of its north American subsidiary was revealed when it put in a bid to develop a US$150million water treatment plant that would eventually form part of a US$2billion distribution system in Houston Texas, home to the corporate headquarters of both companies.…

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AUTO PACT LATEST



BY MONICA DOBIE AND KEITH NUTHALL
DAIMLER Chrysler Canada and Ford Canada have been trying to persuade the Canadian federal government to replace the now defunct 1965 Canada/United States auto pact with a system of assistance that would not be so open to a challenge at the World Trade Organisation.…

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BAMFIELD PIECE



Keith Nuthall
THE MAN who launched ‘Sue-a-Shoplifter Ltd’ in Britain, perched on a settee in the meeting room of the Institute of Directors in London and told me that he was working for fun.

Not for Professor Joshua Bamfield the lure of lucre generated by the 45 per cent commission on damages or the mantle of the country’s greatest crime-buster, but instead academic curiosity, a project in his chosen subject, retail crime.…

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CONSUMERS PACKAGING



BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S LEADER in glass bottle making, Consumers Packaging Inc. has

appointed a new trouble shooter Brent Ballantyne as its Chief Restructuring Officer, a move that is expected to lead to an increase in bottle prices for the Canadian drinks industry.…

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