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Keith Nuthall
UNUSUAL frank pessimism has been voiced by diplomats about securing an agreement at the long-running World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks on creating a multilateral register for geographical indications on wines and spirits. Officials have said that the supporters of legal powers protecting traditional terms, (led by the EU), “remain far apart” from those calling for a voluntary ‘guidance’ register, (headed by the USA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNUSUALLY frank pessimism has been voiced by diplomats about securing an agreement at the long-running World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks on creating a multilateral register for geographical indications on wines and spirits. Officials told the Drinks Bulletin that supporters of legal powers protecting traditional terms, (led by the EU), “remain far apart” from the proponents of a voluntary ‘guidance’ register, (headed by the USA).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to investigate alleged increased shipments of farmed Atlantic salmon into the European Union (EU) to see if temporary protective safeguard duties should be erected. The probe follows complaints by Britain and Ireland who said imports of farmed salmon, mainly from Norway, and to a lesser extent from the Faeroe Islands and Chile, had increased by 14.7 per cent in January-September 2003 compared to the same period in 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BEST place to break the law is where the closest policeman is 100’s of miles away. And where might that criminal utopia be? Siberia, the Sahara, the Amazon? No, it’s the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, on the developed world’s doorstep, where fishing crime is becoming a real problem.…

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 PHILIP FINE

THE GOVERNMENTS of 34 countries from the Americas will be struggling today (Wed19/11) to come to a draft trade agreement, much of which centres on agricultural subsidies. The Free Trade Area of the Americas meeting being held in Miami has seen two competing camps vying for control.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

Alan Osborn
Negotiations over a wine and spirits registry at the World Trade

Organisation are deadlocked and it now looks highly unlikely that the list

will be agreed by trade ministers in Cancun next month. This downbeat

assessment follows a meeting of WTO members earlier this month which

officials said was inconclusive “as no country showed any flexibility.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHILE has moved to create a disputes panel at the World Trade Organisation, asking it to order Uruguay to abolish its Specific Internal Tax system, which Santiago claims levies much heavier taxes on imported tobacco, cigarettes, alcohol and other generally excisable goods, than on domestically produced lines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHILE has been given until December 23 to scrap a price band system, using variable import duties to maintain domestic sugar prices. A World Trade Organisation arbiter made the ruling after Chile lost a WTO dispute over the system, brought by Argentina.…