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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel has ruled that the USA broke global trading procedures when renewing anti-dumping duties against Argentine exports of oil country tubular goods. The US has now to review the tariffs against this complex ruling to justify their reimposition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DOMINICAN Republic heads the list of countries granted low rate tariff quotas by the USA for sugar and sugar-containing product imports made in 2004-5. It has been allocated a 185,335 tonne quota, followed by Brazil with 152,691 tonnes and Philippines, 142,160.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel has ruled that the United States broke its rules when renewing maintain anti-dumping duties against Argentine exports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG), but has refrained from ordering their repeal. Instead, the US will have to review its tariff against this complex ruling and see whether it can justify their imposition legally using procedures mandated by the panel.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler has encouraged key meat exporter Argentina to strike a deal with Brussels at the ongoing World Trade Organisation (WTO) and EU-Mercosur trade bloc talks. “Both will offer Argentina opener markets for agriculture goods,” notably lower tariffs and wider quotas for beef, said Fischler during a visit to Buenos Aires.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ATTACK has been made on the United States, European Union (EU), and other textile importing jurisdictions for waiting until the last minute to abolish most restrictive quotas under the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Textile and Clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has corrected its anti-dumping duty on malleable cast iron tube or pipe fittings from Brazil, reducing the rate from 34.8 to 32 per cent. The move by the EU Council of Ministers follows a ruling last year by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that the European Commission had erred when calculating the original duty (erected in 2000).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Ministers of the 15 EU countries have agreed to a new rule exemption that will allow US wines to be sold in the Union even though the Americans use oenological practices that are forbidden under EU legislation. Similar exemptions have been granted to Australia and Argentina.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALL but one of the commonly used forms of asbestos have been added to a United Nations blacklist, enabling countries to block further imports without being challenged in global tribunals such as the World Trade Organisation. Amosite, actinolite, anthophyllite and tremolite were added to the Rotterdam Convention Prior Informed Consent (PIC) list by an intergovernmental negotiating committee, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) has framed a new anti-corruption convention and its established convention against organised crime is now coming into force. Keith Nuthall examines what this will mean for businesses, banks and governments.

THE COMMERCIAL world is often doubtful about the value of international conventions fighting crime, but their texts do at least reflect a global consensus amongst concerned governments.…