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Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is fighting a legal decision it fears could make United States courts de facto global anti-trust regulators, even in cases with no direct impact on the USA. It has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a DC Court of Appeals ruling allowing non-US plaintiffs to bring foreign anti-trust claims to American courts claiming a case might have a “direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on US domestic or foreign commerce.”…

BY EDWARD PETERS
THE PAST decade has seen China grasp an increasing share of the world’s cosmetic packaging industry. Low production prices and international manufacturing standards — to say nothing of an increasing appreciation of the beauty business — have all contributed to the People’s Republic upping its packaging profile.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FREE trade deal struck between the United States and Australia that will phase out all tariffs on non-ferrous metals traded between the two countries has been welcomed by a specialist US federal committee, consulted as part of the ratification process.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
RESPONSIBLE Care as a concept has been a touchstone of the paint industry for many years, but it should in the coming months prove its worth in the UK and continental Europe. As is often the case with environmental legislation impacting on the paint and coatings industry, an important driver is the European Union (EU), which has approved a raft of directives that come into effect either this year or shortly afterwards.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AT LEAST no one in today’s America has to contend with Carry Nation. She was the late-19th century Kansas reformer who crusaded against the sale and consumption of alcohol. Known as the original saloon smasher, she would burst into bars and cause as much damage as she could to drinking establishments.…

BY PHILIP FINE

UNITED States private-label garment retailers will be asking themselves whether they should in future demand more stringent labour relations codes with external clothing manufacturers, after chain Wet Seal settled a case involving questionable third-party labour practices. Four garment workers had filed wage claims against their employer, DT Sewing, as well as Wet Seal, the 619-store national chain with which DT did business.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AS PART of its strategy to fight the obesity epidemic in the United States, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urging drinks producers to include more realistic caloric intake listings on the labels of their brands.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
SENDING employees abroad or setting up overseas branches always take some preparation and maybe the most important job is taking care of workers’ health needs. Not only must local employment laws be followed, but companies must ensure that they can manage the alien health risks faced abroad.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is prolonging its dispute with the United States at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over Washington’s assessment of benefits enjoyed by privatised steel companies from past public subsidies. Following a protracted WTO dispute, the US was last January (2003) ordered to reform its “change in ownership” methodology, through has justified countervailing duties protecting American steel producers.…

BY MARK WILSON
AWASH with recently-passed legislation and newly-established Financial Investigation Units, the small nations of the Caribbean have transformed their money laundering controls since the mid-1990s. In 2000, five Caribbean island jurisdictions made up one-third of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of fifteen non-cooperative countries and territories, each of them with ‘serious systemic problems,’ in the words of a FATF review published on June 22 of that year.…