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BY KEITH NUTHALL

COSMETICS, perfume and personal hygiene companies in the Mercosur region of South America will have to stage annual health inspections of their manufacturing systems under a resolution agreed by member states Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. These will have to demonstrate that companies are following prescribed Mercosur standards of good practice, with written reports being produced by in-house laboratories, detailing results and any reforms that are required.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is to lift bans on imports of de-boned and maturated beef and veal from the Argentine provinces of Formosa, Salta, Chaco and Jujuy, after Buenos Aires successfully eradicated Foot and Mouth Disease from these regions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, is the international organisation companies turn to when they want to invest in a jurisdiction where their assets might not be that safe. Mining companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and the agency has issued 58 guarantees for the sector since it was formed in 1988.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) appellate body has dismissed an appeal brought by the United States claiming that a WTO disputes erred when it ruled against Washington’s renewal of anti-dumping duties against Argentine exports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG).…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has extended until September 2005 Argentina’s provisional authorisation to use the additive malic acid in wine sold into the EU. This acidity-correcting additive extracted from apples or synthetic acid is banned in EU wine making rules, but the European Commission wants a comprehensive mutual recognition agreement of oenological practices allowing its use by Argentines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FORMAL decision has been taken by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to abolish all remaining textile and clothing import quotas for World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries from January 1. It means 210 quotas affecting exporters from Argentina, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand will go.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FEW whistle-blowers have hit the headlines as much as accountant Marta Andreasen who was suspended by the European Commission in 2002 after disclosing serious weaknesses in its bookkeeping system and has now just been formally sacked.

Of all those who have taken the brave and often lonely path of public disclosure, Ms Andreasen, as the Commission’s former chief accounting officer, is by far the most senior.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ARGENTINA has an extra year to strike a comprehensive wine-making standards deal with the European Union (EU) or face a possible block on exports of vintages containing malic acid, banned in the EU. The European Commission wants a mutual recognition agreement of oenological practices permanently allowing Argentine wine makers to sell malic acid wines in Europe, however.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ARGENTINA has been given a stay of execution of one more year to strike a comprehensive wine-making standards deal with the European Union (EU) or face a possible block on exports to Europe of its vintages that contain malic acid.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DECISION by the WTO to hold a scientific examination of claims that the EU has been breaking trade rules by banning imports of GM foods will delay a decision in this disputes case until March 2005, or later.…