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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ATTEMPTS to change a ruling in the long-running WTO dispute over EU customs classification of frozen boneless chicken cuts have largely failed. Notably, Brazil and Thailand did not persuade the WTO appellate body to rule cuts with 1.2% or more salt content be classified ‘salted’, rather than ‘frozen’, (attracting higher duty), not just 1.2%-3% content cuts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is lending US$150 million to Brazil petrochemical company Ipiranga Petroquimica SA, one of Latin America’s leading producers of polyolefins. The loan will support initiatives including “process improvements and debottlenecking of operations”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has expanded its low-duty special quota for raw cane sugar imports to 1.23 million metric tonnes for October 2005-September 2006, from 1.11 million metric tonnes the previous year. Key beneficiaries include the Dominican Republic 204,649 tonnes; Brazil 168,603; and Australia 96,511.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPING countries can benefit from intellectual property laws, a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) intergovernmental meeting has been told. Representatives from innovative and creative industries in Brazil, India, Argentina and Egypt explained how IP rules had helped boost their industries’ competitiveness.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE DEVASTATION caused by a recent outbreak of white spot disease on white shrimp farms in Brazil has been made clear by a report from the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation. More than 2.24 million deaths were recorded amongst stock in semi-closed farming systems in Canavieira, Aracati, in north-eastern Brazil.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN IRISH company’s plan to help 1,600 meat and dairy producers in Latin America adopt technology capturing and disposing of methane has been supported by a US$10 million loan from the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC). AgCert International plc actually wants to spend US$150 million on rolling out these systems over the next three years, especially in Brazil and Mexico.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRAZIL has appealed against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on the European Union’s (EU) customs designation of frozen boneless chicken cut imports, claiming the WTO should have ordered the reclassification of cuts with 1.2% or more salt content, while the panel restricted its decision to 1.2%-3% content cuts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL assessment of commodity markets until 2014 is predicting that increased production worldwide will depress the price of traded meat. Written by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), this ‘Agricultural Outlook’ predicts slow but steady falls in beef prices, because of the gradual improvement in US production, and poultry, following “continued investment in integrated poultry systems, particularly in developing countries”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) will have to reclassify the customs designation of frozen boneless chicken cut imports, after a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel concluded that it broke WTO rules. The Brazilian government had requested that a panel arbitrated over a row about the fact that in the past, where they had a salt content over 1.2 per cent, they were classified as salted meat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DUMPING duties for silicon metal exports from China should be extended to the 10 countries that joined the European Union (EU) last year without any transitional phasing-in, the European Commission has concluded. Imposing these protective tariffs of 49% on sales to these new southern and eastern European member states “would not likely cause a sudden and excessively negative effect on interested parties, including users, distributors and consumers”, said Brussels, following a detailed review.…