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INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agricultural Organisation and the UN Conference on Trade and Development are developing a task force helping developing countries establish administrative regimes guarantee that locally produced organic foods were made without artificial aids. UNCTAD promotes organic production as sustainable, because its labour intensity and lack of expensive chemical inputs matches poor countries’ economic realities.…
GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS
Keith Nuthall
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation have agreed to embark on two-phase talks to meet the 2003 deadline for completing negotiations on a multilateral registration system for geographical indications of wines and spirits.
The WTO’s TRIPS (trade related aspects of intellectual property rights) council has broadly agreed that a single draft document should be written by early next year, even if this included alternative options.…
GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS
Keith Nuthall
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation have agreed to embark on two-phase talks to meet the 2003 deadline for completing negotiations on a multilateral registration system for geographical indications of wines and spirits.
The WTO’s TRIPS (trade related aspects of intellectual property rights) council has broadly agreed that a single draft document should be written by early next year, even if this included alternative options.…
US RESERVES
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US Departments of Energy and the Interior are joining forces to use oil from federally leased land in the Gulf of Mexico for America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an emergency crude oil stockpile. Equiva Trading Co. of Houston won the contract to supply additional oil, upping the reserve by 18.6 million barrels.…
WTO TALKS
KEITH NUTHALL
THE REVIEW of the implementation of the second phase of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing has become mired in disagreement, with developing country exporters and developed importers unable to agree a scheduled report, which would settle the issue.…
WTO NEGOTIATIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STRUCTURE of the World Trade Organisation negotiations launched last year in Doha, Qatar, to liberalise much of global commerce, has now been set, with committees and working parties being given the task of agreeing detailed timetables for their work.…
EL PASO
BY PHILIP FINE
HOUSTON-based El Paso Energy Partners will build and operate a new 380 mile oil pipeline, capable of moving 500,000 barrels of crude per day from oil fields in the western Gulf of Mexico areas to Port Arthur and Texas City.…
AVEDA DONATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL cosmetics company Aveda is to give US$500,000 to an eco-tourism project involving the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organisation. Sites benefiting are Sian Ka’an and El Vizcaino biosphere reserves, Mexico; Tikal national park, Guatemala; Rio Platano biosphere reserve, Honduras; and Komodo and Ujung Kulon national parks Indonesia.…
GEORGE WESTON
BY MONICA DOBIE
TORONTO-based biscuit bakeries, George Weston Ltd will sell its Oroweat division to Mexico-based, Grupo Bimbo, for US$610 million. The sale includes five production facilities, and a licence to sell and manufacture the Entenmann’s brand in western United States and an agreement to distribute products under the Thomas’ and Boboli brands in the same region.…
TERROR MONEY LAUNDERING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT was telling that the first step taken by President Bush against Islamic terror groups following the World Trade Centre disaster was to freeze bank accounts. The international community has now responded by agreeing common controls to stop terror groups laundering funds.…