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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AMERICAN anti-piracy group has warned that the Czech Republic and Costa Rica have joined the well-known major sources of counterfeit clothing such as China and Brazil. And in a report, the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition adds that the “vast majority” of pirated clothing exported from the Czech Republic was actually made in China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL guidelines on how haulage firms can best check the safety and good repair of gas cylinders increasingly used to power lorries are now available from the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). The Geneva-based body is selling a standard – ISO 19078:2006, ‘gas cylinders – Inspection of the cylinder installation, and requalification of high pressure cylinders for the on-board storage of natural gas as a fuel for automotive vehicles’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is maybe reassuring that during an era where food companies must increasingly grapple with often complex global and regional cross-border trade, health, packaging and marketing regulations, there is one international organisation that actually designs rules with their practical use in mind.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) US$85 million loan to ISTIL Ukraine, will help the Ukraine’s only modern mini-steel mill using an electric arc furnace and continuous casting technology to raise Euro 3 million in Kyoto Protocol carbon credit sales.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Dairy Association (EDA) has sounded a cautious note to the announcement today (Thurs 15-2) in Brussels of reforms to European Union (EU) directives covering the dairy industry. EU agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said: “There are many things we can do to make the rules in the dairy sector work more effectively.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has approved a third revision of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Pharma-GATT Agreement, removing import duties on 1,290 more pharmaceuticals and medicine ingredients traded between major manufacturing countries.

This agreement was originally framed in 1994, and has been updated twice to account for technical progress and expand its scope.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FOOD industry has helped forge a plan to push governments into fighting product counterfeiting more effectively. The Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) group (launched by the International Chamber of Commerce) will coordinate actions this year, which – said the chamber – will “ensure policymakers have sufficient information to make decisions, implement policies and apportion resources; and compel national governments to implement legislation protecting intellectual property (IP)….”…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Damascus
OVER the past six years Syria, once a byword for proto-Soviet state control and autarky, has opened up its economy and implemented investment laws that allow foreign companies to set up shop. But few multinational food companies have wised up to the opportunities within an emerging market of 18 million consumers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
VIETNAMESE clothing manufacturers have been guaranteed quota-free access to the established members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after joining the global trade body on January 11. Its membership, which followed 12 years of negotiations, also means that duty levels for its exports to other WTO countries will henceforth be capped.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending Euro 10 million to steel company SC Donasid to help it upgrade its steel billet plant at Calarasi, south-east Romania, expanding production from a current 300,000 tons per year to its full potential of 450,000 tons.…