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BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOVES to spread the wealth generated by the African oil industry amongst local populations have been debated at the 7th African Oil & Gas, Trade & Finance Conference, in Luanda, Angola. Co-organiser the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) promoted ways of transforming the industry “from its present status as a virtual enclave in which foreign companies absorb most of the gross revenue.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol secretariat report has warned that the industrialised world’s greenhouse gas emissions will probably grow this decade, having stabilised during the 1990’s. Based on national government projections, the paper claims combined global warming emissions of Europe, Japan, the US and other highly industrialised countries could grow by eight per cent from 2000 to 2010, (17 per cent over 1990 levels), despite measures already in place to limit them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN pork exports are thriving according to a new report from the United States Trade Representative (USTR) office. Overseas sales of swine, pork and pork products have increased three times in volume and 2.5 times in value since 1993, with the US now exporting more than 700 tonnes of pork worldwide worth over US$1.5 billion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced the final shape of a wine and spirits trade deal it has struck with Canada. It will lead, notably, to the phasing out in Canada of geographically-linked generic trade names such as Port, Sherry, Chablis and Rhine.…

BY PHILIP FINE

IN order to persuade the US government to change its position on Chinese exports, six groups have planned an "aggressive" joint lobbying campaign in Washington. The American Textile Manufacturers Institute, the National Cotton Council, the National Textile Association, the American Fiber Manufacturers Association, the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition and the American Yarn Spinners Association claim that China’s textile and apparel exports to the United States have surged 140 per cent in one year, causing their industries to close more than fifty plants, destroying more than 40,000 American jobs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVERY year it seems, the international community has a pet topic in which it is fashionable to promote good behaviour, and this year the favoured cause seems to be water conservation. The World Bank, the UN Environment Programme and others have all produced weighty tomes on the need to conserve drinking water stocks.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
NOBODY likes nuclear waste but nobody has yet thought up a universally-acceptable way of disposing of it. This is as true in Europe as anywhere else. It may be fair to say, however, that some European countries have gone further than the rest of the world in drawing conclusions about the future of nuclear energy as a result of the problems caused by radioactive waste.…

BY MARK ROWE
IN the days of the Soviet Union, many millions of men and women had a choice of one state-manufactured brand of shampoo, toothpaste or soap. If anything, the authorities managed to limit even further access to such “indulgences” as perfume.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation disputes settlement panel has dismissed claims made by India that American textile rules of origin regulations are illegal under international law. New Delhi had claimed that changes to the USA’s 1996 Uruguay Round Agreements Act broke commitments within the WTO Rules of Origin Agreement that member countries do not discriminate in favour of one trading partner.…

BY PHILIP FINE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE AMERICAN textile, apparel and fibre industry has planned to launch an "aggressive" lobbying campaign to persuade its government to try and moderate the surge in Chinese exports to the US. It released a report alleging that unless the federal government acts swiftly, China will gain control of between 65 and 75 per cent of the US apparel market and says a planned lifting of quotas in 2005 will destroy the American textile and apparel industries.…