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BY MONICA DOBIE
THE USA launch of a new “safer” cigarette called Fact that sports a filter cutting out harmful chemicals has been delayed because of fears the marketing of the product could mislead consumers into thinking it was “safe”. The cigarette referred to as a PREP, (potentially reduced-exposure product), was to be manufactured by an independent tobacco company in North Carolina, US, called the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA’S competitors in the race to exploit this year’s abolition of clothing and textile import quotas have been holding their own in sales to the European Union (EU), new trade figures show. Released by the European Commission, the statistics illustrate how China has – as expected – grown EU exports sharply: from January to May, it sold Euro 7.3 billion’s worth of clothing and textile products, up from Euro 5.4 billion the previous year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE USA launch of a new “safer” cigarette called Fact, whose filter supposedly cuts out harmful chemicals without impacting on taste, has been delayed because of fears its marketing could mislead consumers into thinking it was “safe”. The cigarette – a PREP (potentially reduced-exposure product) – was to be manufactured by an independent tobacco company in North Carolina, US: the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW “safer” cigarette sporting a filter that cuts out harmful chemicals will be launched in the United States later this month.

The product will be marketed under the brand Fact, and although its filter – created by Hong Kong biotech company Filigent – looks like any other cigarette filter, it has been treated with a patented chemical process that screens out a variety of cancer-causing toxins.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW “safer” cigarette sporting a filter cutting out harmful chemicals will be launched in the United States later this month, under the brand Fact. Although its filter – created by Hong Kong biotech company Filigent – looks like standard filters, it is treated with a patented chemicals process blocking cancer-causing toxins.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
CHINA’S presence at the meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Paris in February was a powerful reminder of how the world’s great economic, trade and regulatory institutions are changing, with consequences that few people probably fully grasp today.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the May 31 deadline looms for World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries to make formal offers to liberalise their service industries, the Comité Européen des Assurances (CEA) has called on Brazil, India and China to be as generous as they can.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HONG Kong health officials are fighting to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, which has affected 16 cattle in a New Territories lairage. All nearby susceptible livestock have been slaughtered (7,146 pigs, 560 cattle and 120 goats), and surveillance has been stepped up on local pig farms and on Hong Kong’s only cattle farm.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIALISTS at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agricultural liberalisation talks in Geneva are trying to establish a commonly agreed value for all the various kinds of duties paid on foodstuffs traded around the world. These can be set at so many US dollars per tonne of beef, or so many Euros per 100 chickens.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PRESIDENT George W Bush’s re-election last November has pretty well ruled out any change in the US ban on Cuban cigars for the next four years – if anything, things are likely to get tougher. One of the last things the previous Bush administration did last October was to actually tighten the import ban by barring Americans travelling to Cuba from bringing back up to US$100 dollars worth of Cuban cigars.…