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KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has requested formal consultations with Egypt at the World Trade Organisation over duties imposed on some textile and clothing products in December 2001. These range from 141 to 51,296 per cent, well above bound rates agreed by Cairo in the WTO’s last general (Uruguay round) agreement.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A UNITED States Department of Energy scientist has developed a process (using a metal catalyst, nitrogen, methanol, and water) that could extend the life of the catalysts that make fuel cells work. Chemist Devinder Mahajan’s low-temperature system avoids the usual degrading to expensive catalysts that convert hydrogen into electricity, turning almost 100 per cent of the carbon monoxide in the hydrogen feed into carbon dioxide and additional hydrogen, he claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMBINED investment of around Euro 50 million in United Utilities Europe (UUE) by the United Utilities group and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will allow the subsidiary to increase its ownership of three eastern European water and wastewater companies.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States wants to negotiate a deal with Canada that would free up controls on domestic flights in each other’s country. US Ambassador Paul Cellucci has told Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper that Washington wants a liberalised aviation policy that would include American carriers transporting passengers between airports in Canada and Canadian airlines flying between American cities.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S Urals Mining and Metals Company (UGMK) has bought the nation’s second largest zinc smelter, Elektrotsink. UGMK, which is headed by entrepreneur Iskander Makhmudov, said it intends to invest in production at the zinc smelter factory and produce up to 85,000 metric tons of zinc at Electrotsink this year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COALITION of major business groups has filed an amicus brief at the United States Supreme Court, calling on it to “clarify” the USA’s 1789 Alien Tort Statute, which they claim is being abused by special interest groups.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has requested formal consultations with Egypt at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over duties imposed by Cairo on some clothing and textile products in December 2001, the first stage of formal disputes proceedings. The row is over promises made in the WTO’s 1990’s Uruguay Round, where Egypt agreed to remove a general ban on the importation of apparel and made?up…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD tobacco and cigarette production is set to increase significantly this decade according to United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) projections, which estimates the number of smokers will grow from 1.1 billion in 1998 to around 1.3 billion in 2010.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Canada are resisting European Union (EU) calls to initiate a World Trade Organisation (WTO) assessment of whether new laws restricting the sale of beef containing hormones has brought the EU into compliance with a WTO ruling on the issue.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States government has integrated information on all its consumer product recalls onto one central website, offering a convenient service to retailers. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has launched the English and Spanish-language site (www.recalls.gov) in collaboration with five other federal agencies.…