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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed expanding import quotas for Chinese shoe exporters to come into effect when the European Union (EU) is expended in membership next year by 10 new member countries from eastern and southern Europe. For instance, quotas for footwear with outer soles of rubber or plastics would rise from 8.474 million to 18.9 million pairs from May and 14.8 million to 33.5 million for slippers and other indoor footwear; five other footwear tariff lines are affected.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lost patience with the United States and has moved to impose retaliatory duties on a wide range of US textile and clothing industry exports over a row about American foreign sales corporations, which have been deemed illegal by the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHAIRMAN of the World Trade Organisation’s agricultural liberalisation talks has resigned. Following its inconclusive summit at Cancun, Stuart Harbinson, also the WTO director general’s chief of staff said: “We are now entering a new phase in the agriculture negotiations and I think a new chairperson may be better able to bring the fresh perspective we now need.”…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
DECLARATIONS of intent on tackling climate change are no longer good enough, delegates to last week’s (Nov4-5) Royal Institute on International Affairs/Carbon Trust conference on delivering climate technology was told by a senior executive from Italy’s environment ministry.…

BY PHILIP FINE

SWEET drinks are helping to increase daily caloric averages, according to a study published in the USA’s Obesity Research. The research found average world consumption up by 74 calories a day, with sugar making up a larger proportion of that increase.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
E & J Gallo, the second largest wine producer in the world, has confirmed that some bottles of wine processed in their Sonoma, California, facility have been tainted with TCA, which causes wine to be ‘corked’. The contamination was first reported in the Wine Spectator, after a critic detected “chalky” and “bitter” flavours in a Gallo wine and arranged for it to be analysed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a food trade deal with Macedonia, which – if confirmed – will see Macedonian import duties on a range of EU meat products annually fall to half their current level by 2010, before being scrapped altogether by 2011.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST “Global Conference on Animal Welfare” will take place at the Office International des Épizooties (OIE) headquarters in Paris, next February 23-25. Topics to be addressed will include the transportation of animals, humane slaughter and the depopulation of stocks for disease control.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) retail goods importers are girding themselves for the imposition of heavy duties on a range of United States food and clothing exports, after the World Trade Organisation authorised EU retaliation to American protection of its steel industry, erected in breach of global trade laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL leather trade is facing a fall in demand for American raw hides, skin and finished leather exports, as well as leather finished goods and components, with the European Union (EU) planning to impose heavy duties such exports from the United States.…