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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) has framed a new anti-corruption convention and its established convention against organised crime is now coming into force. Keith Nuthall examines what this will mean for businesses, banks and governments.

THE COMMERCIAL world is often doubtful about the value of international conventions fighting crime, but their texts do at least reflect a global consensus amongst concerned governments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) ‘fourth committee’ (on special political affairs) has started debating atomic radiation, based on a report on the subject by the UN scientific committee. It warns that ill health is still being created worldwide by environmental ionizing radiation, notably in the Ukraine, Russia and Belarus because of the Chernobyl disaster.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States government has thrown doubt on whether the China has scrapped ‘temporary’ safeguard duties that were imposed by Beijing last May on nine steel products imported from the US, tariffs that were supposed to lapse by November 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has played tit-for-tat in unusually public diplomatic spat over temporary’ safeguard duties that were imposed by Beijing last May on US exports of nine steel products. The United States had published a pointed set of questions about whether the duties had actually lapsed as planned by November and over exemptions from such tariffs for South Korea and Slovakia on the apparently dubious grounds that they were “developing countries”.…

BY MARK ROWE
UZBEKISTAN has been at the forefront of international AML efforts in the central Asia region, a spokesman for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) told the Money Laundering Bulletin. Uzbekistan has the most advanced AML legislation and apparatus of all the former Soviet Central Asia and has signed more than 20 bilateral and multilateral agreements on cooperation in fighting illicit drug trafficking with its Central Asian neighbours, as well as with Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Pakistan, Russia and Turkey, according to the International Money Laundering Information Network (IMOLIN), (whose contributing members include the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering, the United Nations and the World Customs Organisation).…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
WHAT price safety? Ports and shippers racing to comply with an extremely tight deadline to meet the new International Marine Organisation security requirements are still not sure what the final bill will be. However, with the newly added SOLAS (safety of life at sea convention) special measures and the also new International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code due to come into effect on 1 July 2004, those who are not already well down the line to meeting the requirements will find the costs rising sharply as demand for security services steps up.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE 19th century saw imperial rivalry create the “Great Game”, when Russia and the British Empire tweaked one another’s tails in the region that following Russia’s Bolshevik revolution became known as Soviet Central Asia. The old Great Game was tied to control of India, and to gems and gold.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Canada have been asked to lift Euro 120 million of extra tariffs levied against European Union (EU) exporters following the imposition of a hormone treated beef directive that the European Commission claims satisfies a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on the matter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW SCALED-DOWN European Commission proposals to tighten controls on the EU chemical industry are unlikely to please the United States, according to Washington’s commerce secretary Don Evans. He told journalists in Brussels “I’m going to tell you that although I have not read the draft, I’m going to tell you that it’s not enough.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has given the European Commission two months to ban the transfer of sensitive passenger data to the United States or face possible legal action. In a near unanimous resolution, MEPs said that they were prepared to take the Commission to the European Court of Justice over alleged infringements of EU data legislation caused by the transfers.…