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US DUTIES LOWERED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has announced its first offer of reductions to food duties in its bid to create a 34-country Free Trade Area of the Americas pact. It plans to slash duties on 56 per cent of agricultural imports from north and south American countries by 2005 (ignoring those from Canada and Mexico) and expects reciprocal offers.…
BOTSWANA DIAMONDS
BY RICHARD HURST
BOTSWANA’S diamond sales rose by 4.7 per cent to US$2.17 billion in 2002, due mainly to a buoyant US market, according to Debswana, the company responsible for all the country’s output, which is a partnership between the Botswana government and the South African mining company De Beers.…
AFRICAN UNLADED PETROL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
The UN Environment Programme says that within five years most African countries will be close to phasing out leaded petrol. Egypt, Libya, Mauritius and Sudan – are already lead-free, to be joined this year by Morocco, Reunion and Tunisia.…
MOZAMBIQUE PIPELINE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, of the World Bank, is providing investment guarantees worth US$72 million to South Africa’s Sasol for developing natural gas fields in Mozambique, including building a central processing facility and an 865 km cross-border gas pipeline.…
BEAUTY MILK
BY MARK ROWE
BEAUTY is not only in the eye of the beholder but all also in the milk that we pour in our tea or cereal. At least, that’s what a South Korean milk company would like us to believe.…
VIETNAM AGREEMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and Vietnam have struck a new textile and clothing trade deal which would give the south east Asian country increases in European Union (EU) textile and clothing quotas worth Euro 200 million a year. In return, the Vietnam government has pledged significant tariff reductions in the sectors, along with other liberalisation commitments.…
PARAGUAY BEEF
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has banned all imports of bovine fresh meat into the EU from Paraguay, because of alleged serious problems regarding the south Americans’ control and supervision of Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks in their country.…
PARAGUAY BEEF
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has banned all imports of bovine fresh meat into the EU from Paraguay, because of alleged serious problems regarding the south Americans’ control and supervision of Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks in their country.…
SAND DREDGERS
BY MARK ROWE
THREE Belgian-owned dredgers detained for nearly seven months by Indonesian authorities for alleged illegal sand mining in the Riau islands, south of Singapore, have finally been released. Dredging International – the owner of the Lange Wapper – and Jan de Nul – the owner of the Vasco da Gama and Alexander Von Humboldt – are understood to have agreed to pay fines demanded by Indonesian authorities for the release of their dredgers.…
AUSTRALIA/NZ/PACIFIC
BY MATTHEW BRACE
WITH Australia sharing the front-line in President Bush’s war against terrorism with Britain and the USA, and also having witnessed its citizens dying in last year’s Bali nightclub terror attack, it is maybe not surprising that it has been tightening its money laundering legislation, especially as regards terrorists.…