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BY MONICA DOBIE
THE COST of the proposed Mackenzie Delta pipeline in Canada’s Northwest Territories has skyrocketed 40% to CDN$7 billion from CDN$5 billion. Imperial Oil has expanded its planned capacity, adding a separate parallel LNG line. The pipeline should be able to move 1.2 billion cubic feet of gas daily to the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States International Trade Commission (ITC) has been sharply criticised by a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel ruling on a sunset review of countervailing and anti-dumping duties on Canadian corrosion resistant steel exports. Washington’s conclusion that this American steel sub-sector required continued protection because it was in a “weakened state” considering its profits, “is unsupported by substantial evidence and not in accordance with law”, said the panel.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is pressing the United States to further delay a rule insisting that passports used in its visa-waiving programme contain biometric features. Following EU calls, Congress delayed its introduction until next October, but the European Commission now wants this postponed until 2006, saying some member states cannot meet the deadline.…

Keith Nuthall
NORWAY, Iceland and Liechtenstein want the European Union (EU) to include their air carriers in any open skies deals struck, especially with the United States. If these rights are denied to them, these countries said it would “risk fragmentation of the European internal market”.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States and the European Union (EU) are making real progress towards concluding a comprehensive wine and spirits agreement, Brussels’ outgoing agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler has told the EU Council of Ministers. The Austrian said that since talks in the long running negotiations had been resumed last month (on wine), the European Commission and the US government have been striving to secure a preliminary deal, upon which a final agreement could be built.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) incoming agriculture Commissioner signalled a tough approach to New World wine and spirit producers who exploit traditional European geographic names on wine products after she takes up her post on November 1.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has confirmed its appeal against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel ruling that some of its cotton production and export subsidies break global commerce rules.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have developed the first genetic map of a cow, a breakthrough they claim will help reduce animal disease and improve the nutrition and quality of beef products. The research, performed at the Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Centre in Houston, Texas, is part of a US$53 million global project to sequence the genome of different breeds of cattle.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INQUIRY into irregularities surrounding the United Nations oil for food fund in Iraq will cost the scheme’s administrative account US$30 million and will continue all of next year, the UN security council has been told.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CALLS have been made a the United Nations to renegotiate the Kyoto Protocol to bind advanced developing countries by commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The UN second committee (economic and financial) was warned that otherwise their economic growth would undermine developed world efforts to control emissions, with gases reaching “dangerous levels” by 2015.…