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BY ALAN OSBORN
IT won’t be long now before British and other European sugar beet growers find out exactly what kind of future they have – and even, in some cases, whether it’s worth them staying in the game at all.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UKRAINE silicon carbide producer has failed to persuade the European Commission that existing 24% anti-dumping duties on its exports to the European Union (EU) were outdated and should be abolished. Although Zaporozhsky Abrasivny Combinat (ZAC) had made price undertakings to avoid paying the duties, it claimed that the 1996 analysis behind their imposition was flawed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RECEIVED wisdom on the rumbling row over the CAP pits Tony Blair’s neo-liberal agribusiness technicians, armed with computerised high-tech wizardry, against Jacques Chirac’s subsidy-cosseted peasants, idly scratching their pigs. Naturally, the reality is less simple: British farming is efficient, but it is not always as profitable as the French.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL sugar industry will scrutinise the text of an appeal verdict issued yesterday (28-4) by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), confirming an earlier decision that European Union’s (EU) existing sugar subsidies break WTO rules. The European Commission has already accepted the decision, which is important, because it will on June 22 publish detailed reforms and EU agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has responded: “I will take account of this verdict when I finalise the reform proposals”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MEMBER states of the Mercosur trade bloc in South America have agreed to harmonise their authorisation and registration procedures for cosmetic, perfume and personal hygiene products companies. The aim of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay is to remove restrictions preventing their trade in these products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW Brazil regulation has established minimum quality requirements for sugar and sweetening products; saying sugars, except baker’s sugar, should contain a minimum of 98g/100g saccharose, for instance.…

BY LIZ HALL
A PROFUSION of family-run businesses, corrupt and under-resourced authorities and low wages has traditionally meant much commercial crime goes undetected in Latin America. But the tide is turning, with more and more companies unwilling to turn a blind eye to fraud, bribery and counterfeit goods production.…

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 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.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
RURAL development will be the CAP’s cornerstone for at least the next decade in its twin ambitions of creating regional growth and supporting farmers who need to modernise, promises the recently arrived European Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner, Mrs Mariann Fischer Boel.…