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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AGREEMENT of a Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, (UNESCO), may not help museums gain access to treasures from shipwrecks and sunken buildings, specialists in the UK have claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRAZIL has requested formal talks with the United States at the World Trade Organisation to pressure Washington into lifting anti-dumping duties that it has imposed on Brazilian exports of silicon metal.

These were imposed in 1991 and include metal produced by the Companhia Brasileira Carbureto de Cálcio, (CBCC); it has regularly participated in annual administrative reviews of its dumping margin, applying the duties to be scrapped.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
ONTARIO-based, Sleeman Breweries has announced that it has reached an agreement with H.P. Bulmer Ltd. of Hereford, England, to handle sales and marketing for its Strongbow premium packaged and draught ciders in Canada.

Bulmer cider became available in liquor stores in Ontario, B.C…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BOOM in the robot market that continued through the 1990’s into last year has hit the skids in north America, where demand plummeted by 28 per cent in the half-year to June. However, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and International Federation of Robotics says that in Europe, the market is still expanding, with sales rising by 11 per cent in the first six months of 2001.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE has been added to a European Commission blacklist of Member States who have concluded so-called ‘Open Skies’ agreements with the United States, which grants relevant national airlines additional landing writes in America. Brussels opposes the deals, because they discriminate against carriers from EU countries which have not made similar agreements and also because they help US airlines compete with those based in Europe: the deals allow planes to fly onto a third country, a mixed blessing for EU carriers flying to the US, given its size.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CHOCOLATE sales have been buoyed in Canada following the attacks in the United States says John Rowsome, President of the Confectionery Manufacturers of Canada. Speaking to the Toronto Globe and Mail he said that a recent boom could not just be explained by the traditional increase in north American demand during the Halloween period.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE COCA-COLA Bottling Company has just(October 29) launched Diet Coke with Lemon in Canada, an event times to match the 20th anniversary of Diet Coke in the country; it is the first flavour extension for Diet Coke.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY report from the World Trade Organisation has concluded that the growth in global commerce has fallen steeply and is now expected to reach just two per cent, compared with much healthier estimates at the start of the year and a 12 per cent boom in the year 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been accusing the United States of having double standards over agricultural subsidies, by pushing for grant cuts and free trade at the World Trade Organisation, whilst supporting handouts at home.

EU agriculture commissioner Franz Fischler has been especially vocal, following the vote in the US Congress for a Farm Bill, which includes a ten-year increase in price-linked support for farmers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation has launched a general round at its summit in Qatar, which will include negotiations on liberalising export and import regimes for so-called industrial goods such as fish.

These talks have a final deadline of 2005 and, said the meeting’s communiqué, will try “to reduce or as appropriate eliminate tariffs, including the reduction or elimination of tariff peaks, high tariffs, and tariff escalation, as well as non-tariff barriers, in particular on products of export interest to developing countries.”…