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BY ALAN OSBORN and MONICA DOBIE
THE RELEASE of Euro 443 million in subsidies for European wine producers on the eve of the World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun dedicated to rooting out such payments has dismayed some New World growers while being welcomed in Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has welcomed Canada’s push to enact legislation allowing makers of generic medicines to export cheaper versions of patented HIV/AIDS drugs to poor countries. The UN agency says that Canada is the first developed country to take advantage of the recent World Trade Organisation deal over generic medicine exports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA, Canada and Argentina have requested a WTO disputes panel be established to rule on the EU’s de facto five-year freeze on approving the import of new genetically modified foodstuffs. The three countries claim it is illegal under world trade law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MIDDLE East conference of the Office International des Épizooties, the world animal health organisation, has been staged to improve the region’s weak animal health controls. There was concern at the meeting, in Istanbul, Turkey, that Middle East countries do not have emergency plans to deal with outbreaks of transmissible animal diseases, a potential barrier to trade and risk to countries importing their livestock and meat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOLLOWING the failed World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun, Mexico, the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation negotiations are being delayed. The “special session” of officials dealing with the food and drink portion of the Doha Development Round was supposed to meet in Geneva on October 6-9, but this meeting has now been postponed “indefinitely.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SURPRISINGLY wide support for the west African plan to rid the world of cotton subsidies has been voiced at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit, in Cancun, Mexico. The Canadian and Australian governments yesterday (10 Sept) threw their developed country weight behind the plan, as did WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEXICO has requested the formation of a World Trade Organisation panel over a dispute with the United States regarding its levying of 11.68 per cent countervailing duties on imports of carbon steel plate in sheets from Mexican producer Altos Hornos de México, SA de CV (AHMSA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CANCER Research UK survey, conducted for the European Commission in seven European countries, has concluded that simple health warnings on cigarette packets are no longer effective, with many smokers ignoring government messages that have been on cigarette packages for many years.…

Alan Osborn
Negotiations over a wine and spirits registry at the World Trade

Organisation are deadlocked and it now looks highly unlikely that the list

will be agreed by trade ministers in Cancun next month. This downbeat

assessment follows a meeting of WTO members earlier this month which

officials said was inconclusive “as no country showed any flexibility.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Group for Anti-Corruption Coordination (IGAC) is being created. The new body – involving UN agencies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations – will share good practice and intelligence on corruption. Founders include the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the European Commission, the OECD, EU anti-fraud office OLAF, Interpol, the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Transparency International.…