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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has struck a key fishing agreement with Morocco, allowing EU fishermen to supply the EU with Moroccan fish from March 2006-2010, covering 60,000 tons annual catches of small coastal species, such as sardines and anchovies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOROCCO has approved new labour regulations, and the United States is claiming its recent trade agreement with the north African country encouraged its government to pass the reforms. They raise the minimum employment age from 12 to 15, reduced the standard work week from 48 to 44 hours, (with overtime rates payable for additional hours), and insist upon regular reviews of the Morocco minimum wage, which rose by 10% on July 1.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA and Morocco have struck a free trade deal that will swiftly remove all Moroccan import duties on American pistachios and pecans, and within five years, on walnuts and cherries. The US will phase out tariffs on all Moroccan food exports, mostly within 15 years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE US government has released further details of its free trade agreement with Morocco. Processed poultry will gain immediate duty free access to Morocco, while lower tariff quotas have been opened for US fresh beef and poultry, to be expanded in the next few years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio has called for a redoubling of efforts to create gas networks linking European, north African and Levantine countries. Speaking to a Euro-Mediterranean ministerial conference, in Rome, de Palacio highlighted the available resources of natural gas in the EU’s Mediterranean neighbours and called for cross-border infrastructure to be improved.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALL but one of the commonly used forms of asbestos have been added to a United Nations blacklist, enabling countries to block further imports without being challenged in global tribunals such as the World Trade Organisation. Amosite, actinolite, anthophyllite and tremolite were added to the Rotterdam Convention Prior Informed Consent (PIC) list by an intergovernmental negotiating committee, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOROCCO and the European Union have struck a food trade deal that will lead to both sides lowering their respective tariffs and widening import quotas for poultry meat. The deal is expected to boost the trade between them in all meats.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE TEXTILE industry is one of a limited range of sectors that will receive development aid from a six-year financial convention signed in Brussels between the European Commission and Morocco. The Euro 50 million package will especially be aimed at boosting professional training in the industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The UN Environment Programme says that within five years most African countries will be close to phasing out leaded petrol. Egypt, Libya, Mauritius and Sudan – are already lead-free, to be joined this year by Morocco, Reunion and Tunisia.…