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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CEO of the Coca-Cola Company Douglas N. Daft has been appointed as co-chairman of a United States-European Union joint-body charged with making suggestions on removing barriers hindering trade. Mr Daft will co-chair the Transatlantic Business Dialogue for 2004-5 with Unilever chairman Niall FitzGerald.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EXTRACTIVE Industries Review for the World Bank has recommended it “phase out investments in oil production by 2008” diverting money to renewable energy and conservation. Until then, investments “should be exceptional” and “limited to poor countries with few alternatives.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a food trade deal with Macedonia, which would see Macedonian import duties on a range of EU confectionary products and ingredients fall by half by 2010, being scrapped by 2011. Affected products include chocolate, cocoa powder and sugar.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a food trade deal with Macedonia, which would see Macedonian import duties on a range of EU confectionary products and ingredients fall by half by 2010, being scrapped by 2011. Affected products include chocolate, cocoa powder and sugar.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) claims it is near to making guinea-worm disease the first parasitic illness to be eradicated globally. Only 35,000 sufferers remain in west Africa, the Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda. The worm grows inside the abdomen and emerges through painful blisters on lower limbs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Conference of Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is urging developing countries to increase organic tropical fruit production to industrialised country export markets expected to grow 10-30 per cent over the next five-to-10 years. It is advising producers on conforming with tough regulatory and market requirements.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BEST place to break the law is where the closest policeman is 100’s of miles away. And where might that criminal utopia be? Siberia, the Sahara, the Amazon? No, it’s the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, on the developed world’s doorstep, where fishing crime is becoming a real problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Canada are resisting European Union (EU) calls to initiate a World Trade Organisation (WTO) assessment of whether new laws restricting the sale of beef containing hormones has brought the EU into compliance with a WTO ruling on the issue.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE LARGEST museum in the world and – arguably – the grandest of them all, the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is returning to its roots. In the middle of a long and painstaking modernisation process, the Russian museum is striving, in addition to the urgent physical restoration required to bring the museum into the 21st century, to recapture the ambience of its Imperial origins, when its vast palaces were the residence of the Tsars.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has welcomed the establishment of a high-level group by the European Commission that has been tasked with proposing reforms to the EU textile industry, to enable it to cope with the oncoming removal of restrictive quotas under the World Trade Organisation’s agreement on textiles and clothing.…