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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has been authorised by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to impose retaliatory duties on US knitted products for failing to scrap its Byrd Amendment law allowing payments of anti-dumping and countervailing duties to American companies making complaints sparking such tariffs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CLEAN Development Mechanism (CDM), of the Kyoto Protocol has approved its first emissions trading project: the NovaGerar, landfill gas to energy project, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Netherlands CDM Facility will buy 2.5 million tons of its CO2 emissions savings at Euro 3.35 a ton.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has identified three priority countries as sources of counterfeit cigarette and other tobacco goods as the focus of special diplomatic efforts to pressure their governments to deal with the problem. China, the Ukraine and Brazil will receive encouragement and advice from Brussels on fighting counterfeiting.…

BY MARK ROWE
CHOCOLATE sells in eastern Europe. One of the curiosities of the old Soviet Empire was that, even in the darkest days of rule by Stalin and Brezhnev, the USSR imported vast amounts of cocoa, simply because the Kremlin thought it was good for the masses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has identified eight priority countries as sources of counterfeit goods as the focus of special diplomatic efforts to pressure their governments to deal with the problem. China, Thailand, the Ukraine, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, South Korea and Indonesia will receive encouragement and advice on fighting counterfeiting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CLEAN Development Mechanism (CDM), of the Kyoto Protocol has approved its first emissions trading project: the NovaGerar, landfill gas to energy project, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Netherlands CDM Facility will buy 2.5 million tons of its CO2 emissions savings at Euro 3.35 a ton, totalling Euro 8.4 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to extend definitive countervailing duties imposed on Indian exports to the EU of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film to Brazil and Israel. Brussels fears that Brazilian and Israeli companies are being used as fronts to funnel PET into the EU market, evading the duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CONSORTIUM headed by Brazil’s Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) has been chosen by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation to exploit the Moatize Coal Deposit in Tete Province, Mozambique. It had bid US$122.8 million to explore and mine 21 million tonnes annually.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has been authorised by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to impose retaliatory duties on US textile products for failing to scrap its Byrd Amendment law allowing payments of anti-dumping and countervailing duties to American companies making complaints sparking such tariffs.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) incoming agriculture Commissioner signalled a tough approach to New World wine and spirit producers who exploit traditional European geographic names on wine products after she takes up her post on November 1.…