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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 MARK ROWE
RUSSIA is lifting export duties on unalloyed aluminium and primary aluminium alloys. The export duty on raw aluminium will amount to 5 per cent, while unalloyed aluminium and primary aluminium alloys will be exported duty free, according to a statement issued by the Russian government’s information department.…

BY RICHARD HURST
The former British colony of Sierra Leone has been a focus of a money laundering scandal since the September 11 attacks in the US, when it was uncovered (in the New York Times) that a senior member of the al Qaeda organisation, Ibrahim Bah, had been purchasing and stockpiling diamonds mined by the country’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRAN’S foreign minister Kamal Kharrazi has blamed the tough restrictions imposed on its acquisition of nuclear technology via the global Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) for his government’s use of secrecy in its civil nuclear programme. “Had it not been for the severity of the impediments, Iran would have pursued all its entirely legal nuclear activities with fuller transparency and in collaboration with other fellow members as it had always sought,” he told a United Nations disarmament conference, in Geneva.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN Indians and Alaskan natives (such as Inuit peoples) are more likely to smoke than any other group in the United States, with 40 per cent of adults defined as smokers, whilst Chinese Americans were least likely to smoke, making up 12 per cent, according to a report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) law enforcement agencies are intensifying their fight against the counterfeiting of the Euro currency, as European Central Bank (ECB) figures show an increase in seizures of forged banknotes. In the second half of 2003, 311,925 counterfeit notes were discovered in Euro and non-Euro countries, a 30 per cent increase over the first six months of 2003, when counterfeit seizures had been 59 per cent more numerous than in the previous half-year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE IMPACT of mad-cow disease in the United States the will cause a 10 per cent decline in American farm income in 2004, according to recent economic analysis.

Estimates from Global Insight predict that farm income will be about $5.5 billion lower in 2004 than what it would have been in the absence of BSE.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PETROL additives tetraethyl lead and tetramethyl lead have been provisionally added to a United Nations (UN) Rotterdam Convention Prior Informed Consent (PIC) blacklist, which allows countries to block imports of listed products on environmental health grounds. Final confirmation would be made at a convention meeting this September, in Geneva.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Fast food restaurants in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are expecting a drop in business following a recent decision by the government there to ban beef products from U.S, according to trade sources. The country imports about 1,387 metric tons of beef each year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ADDING Vitamin E to the diets of turkeys may reduce the instances of people contracting listeriosis, the potentially deadly bacterial foodborne illness. Scientists from the United States’ Agricultural Research Service have found that supplementing turkeys’ diets with the vitamin stimulates their immune responses, helping them clear the gut of the microorganism that causes the disease.…