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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to extend definitive countervailing duties imposed on Indian exports to the EU of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film to Brazil and Israel. Brussels fears that Brazilian and Israeli companies are being used as fronts to funnel PET into the EU market, evading the duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PURCHASE of Brazilian pork and poultry producer Seara Alimentos by US meat giant Cargill has been approved for European markets, without conditions, by the European Commission. Although both companies supply boneless chicken breasts to Europe, their products overlap “insignificantly”, said Brussels, and other large suppliers will continue to offer competing products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has launched work to create a global standard for corporate social responsibility, giving the Brazilian and Swedish governments the task of piloting the development of these guidelines. Detailed proposals will be shortly issued by ISO, launching three months of debates before preliminary decisions on their scope and content can be made.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) has asked the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to extend definitive countervailing duties imposed on Indian exports to the EU of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film to Brazil and Israel. Brussels fears that Brazilian and Israeli companies are being used as fronts to funnel PET into the EU market, evading the duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lifted a remaining requirement for 20% of Brazilian poultry meat exports into the European Union (EU) to be tested for residues of nitrofuran antibiotics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lifted a remaining requirement for 20% of Brazilian poultry meat exports into the European Union (EU) to be tested for residues of nitrofuran antibiotics. All such cargoes had been tested after October 2002, with the proportion eased to 20% this March following improvements in Brazilian production standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has corrected its anti-dumping duty on malleable cast iron tube or pipe fittings from Brazil, reducing the rate from 34.8 to 32 per cent. The move by the EU Council of Ministers follows a ruling last year by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that the European Commission had erred when calculating the original duty (erected in 2000).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has reported outbreaks of blue tongue disease amongst sheep in Cyprus and scrapie in Brazilian flocks. The Cypriot outbreak has hit six flocks and involved 71 cases, almost entirely amongst females.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is ordering a reduction from 100 to 20 per cent in the frequency of checks on poultry and poultry meat from Brazil to detect residues of the banned anti-biotic nitrofuran. Blanket inspections have been held since October 2002, after the drug was found in Brazilian poultry, but none has been discovered since August 2003.…