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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DISPUTES panel is to be set up at the WTO, following the failure of talks to resolve complaints made by the Chilean government about the sales tax regime for cigarettes in Peru, which it claims discriminates against its tobacco exports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COPPER production is expected to continue forging ahead, fuelled especially by surging Chinese demand, the World Commodity Survey 2000-2001, published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, (UNCTAD), has predicted.

The annual survey, covering market trends of the trade in most major and minor metals, says that supplies should increase by seven per cent this year, with a number of mining expansion and development projects reaching maturity.…

BY KATE REW
US Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta last week signed an international agreement with senior transportation officials from Singapore, Brunei, New Zealand and Chile, which will open air markets in the Asia-Pacific region.

The new Open Skies agreement, which is the first to involve the United States, has five participating member countries and is open to other countries.…

BY KATE REW
THE UNITED States and four Asia-Pacific countries have helped pioneer a groundbreaking multilateral agreement, which follows the “Open Skies” principles previously used in bilateral agreements struck by Washington.

US Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta last week signed the agreement with senior transportation officials from Singapore, Brunei, New Zealand and Chile, which will open up pan-Pacific air markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NICARAGUA, Guatemala and Costa Rica have joined formal consultations launched at the World Trade Organisation by Columbia with Chile, over safeguard duties imposed by the government in Santiago on sugar exports. Columbia has questioned whether the duties are justified by economic difficulties being suffered by the Chilean sugar sector.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
EUROPE, in wine terms, has pedigree. It is, after all, the home of the longest established commercial wine-making tradition. But these days, its primacy is being challenged by colonial upstarts, in the shape of New World vineyards, and guess what; the new kids on the block seem to be ganging up on the oldsters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHILEAN government has requested formal talks at the World Trade Organisation with Peru, over a sales tax regime for cigarettes, made from dark, premium bright and standard bright tobacco. The taxation varies for each of these categories by between S/0.025 (Peruvian Sol) to S/0.100 per unit, with higher amounts being charged for brands that are sold in three or more countries than for those sold in fewer countries.…