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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRAZILIAN government has requested that a World Trade Organisation disputes panel arbitrates over a row with the European Union regarding the customs classification of imported frozen boneless chicken cuts from Brazil. In the past, where they had a salt content over 1.2 per cent, they were classified as salted meat.…

Keith Nuthall
THE NUMBER of women seafarers working in the world’s merchant navies is on the rise, but female ship workers still face discrimination and a lack of tailored facilities, an International Labour Organisation report has said. It claims women make up between one and two per cent of the world’s 1.25 million seafarers, on around 87,000 ships.…

Keith Nuthall
THE NUMBER of women seafarers working in the world’s merchant navies is on the rise, but female ship workers still face discrimination and a lack of tailored facilities, an International Labour Organisation report has said. It claims women make up between one and two per cent of the world’s 1.25 million seafarers, on around 87,000 ships.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised a deal involving the merger of two key Brazilian suppliers of iron ore into the European Union market. It has approved the proposed acquisition by CVRD (Companhia Vale do Rio Doce) of sole control of Caemi, which it currently shares with Japanese iron ore trader Mitsui.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRAZILIAN government has largely failed to secure a tougher ruling at the World Trade Organisation’s appellate body against the European Union’s anti-dumping duties on malleable cast iron tube or pipe fittings from Brazil. In its initial ruling, a WTO disputes panel found that the EU had erred in two technical ways regarding the setting of the duties, but Brazil appealed, asking the appellate body to declare the duties broke world trade laws more comprehensively.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA is to resume imports of Brazilian boneless beef and pork. Russia, a major new market for Brazilian beef exporters, banned purchases from Brazil last December because of concerns over the disease bovine vesicular stomatitis. Brazil says the export herds have been free of the disease for at least one year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TEMPORARY safeguard measures protecting Brazilian producers of dried coconuts, (shelled and shredded), have been imposed on imports into Brazil of this confectionary ingredient from the Ivory Coast and Indonesia. These countries supply 4.67 per cent and 59.49 per cent of dried coconut imports into Brazil respectively, said a note to the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRAZILIAN steel producer V&M do Brazil has struck the largest deal to date under the Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism. It will see the steel maker selling five million tonnes of greenhouse gas reductions for Euro 15 million to an International Finance Corporation/Dutch government fund, the IFC-Netherlands Carbon Facility.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOOD practice guidelines of how to reduce a company’s exposure to HIV/AIDS in the workplace have been released by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank. Its note provides companies with advice on designing and implementing HIV/AIDS prevention and care programmes for employees.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union is to remove all textile import quotas applied to Brazil under a

Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two sides this month (November). In return, Brazil will respect maximum tariff levels, refrain from applying non-tariff barriers to EU exports, and discontinue the application of an additional tax on textile and clothing imports.…