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BY KEITH NUTHALL
CREATING finished leather from tanned leather, (in its wet state), is not sufficiently important a manufacturing process to warrant the final product being legally considered a new good, made in the country where it was processed rather than where it was sourced, the chairman of a special World Trade Organisation committee has advised.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ARGENTINE government has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation, launching formal talks with Chile over Santiago’s imposition of 14 per cent temporary safeguard duties on fructose. Argentina claims that Chile broke the WTO’s GATT agreement by imposing the duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has joined forces with Australia, Argentina, Canada, New Zealand and other large drinks exporters, in proposing that a register of geography-linked names of wines and spirits – now being discussed at the World Trade Organisation – should be voluntary, carrying little legal weight.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ARGENTINA has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation in a case against the European Union, which it accuses of breaking WTO rules by using its wine-making regulations to block imports of certain Argentine wines.…

Keith Nuthall
THE ARGENTINE government has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation, in a case against the European Union, which it accuses of breaking WTO rules through its wine-making regulations.

Notably, Buenos Aires says that the EU Regulation EC/1493/1999 includes requirements on oenological practices that are “more trade restrictive than they should and could be.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CREATING finished leather from tanned leather, (in its wet state), is not sufficiently important a manufacturing process to warrant the final product being legally considered a new good, made in the country where it was processed rather than where it was sourced, the chairman of a special World Trade Organisation committee has advised.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SWITZERLAND has complained to a key World Trade Organisation committee that its beef imports are being unfairly restricted by the USA because of concerns that they are contaminated with BSE. It has claimed at the WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Committee that the US should not, for example, be insisting on the onsite inspection of Swiss meat plants, because the Office International des Épizooties has classified Switzerland as having a low incidence the disease.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE ROYAL Dutch/Shell Group, Europe’s second largest oil company by sales, will decide next year on the location of what will be the world’s biggest natural gas-to-liquids plant. Malaysia, Argentina and Iran and are understood to be leading contenders for the US$1billion project, which will produce 75,000 barrels a day of kerosene, diesel and other fuels and is due to start operation in 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FEED the world. Bob Geldof. Don’t they know it’s Christmas time? Food aid: it is supposed to be simple. Poor countries have hungry people. Rich countries have fat people. The developed world sends food to the developing world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed opening a low 20 per cent tariff import quota of 10,000 tonnes of high quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef, from 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003, to help exporting countries, such as Argentina, fight pressing economic problems.…