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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CREATION of an international joint-venture, manufacturing oxo chemicals – which are a key ingredient of many solvents – has been agreed by the European Commission. It has approved the 50/50 initiative involving German chemical producers Celanese AG and Degussa AG; it will trade as European Oxo Chemicals (EOC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
US and EU negotiators have been trying hard to broker a deal on agricultural liberalisation for the WTO’s September 10-14 summit, which is supposed to give impetus to the ongoing Doha development trade round.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol secretariat report has warned the industrialised world’s greenhouse gas emissions will probably grow this decade, having stabilised during the 1990’s. Based on government projections, the paper claims combined 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
BRAZIL has extended its safeguard duty regime against imports of shelled and shredded dried coconuts, imposing it on Malaysian exports. The south-east Asian country had previously been exempt, along with 87 other developing countries said a note to the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol secretariat report says the developed world greenhouse gas emissions will probably grow this decade. Based on government projections, it claims combined emissions of Europe, Japan, the US and other highly industrialised countries could grow by 8 per cent from 2000 to 2010 (17 per cent over 1990 levels).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FORGET all those stories you used to hear about weak regulation and cosy financial set-ups in Britain’s offshore dependencies such as the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the crown colony of Gibraltar. They may once have been good places to launder money but not any more they aren’t.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is opposing the launch of a WTO case by Brazil, Australia and Thailand against EU sugar subsidies, claiming a successful challenge would undermine trade preferences given to Europe’s sugar imports from poorer African, Pacific and Caribbean.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIAN Aluminium has confirmed that it has been in discussion with officials in Sierra Leone about a possible takeover of a bauxite mine in the country.

Officials at Sierra Leone’s Mineral Resources Ministry said that RusAl had put together an investment project for a bauxite mine in southern Sierra Leone and that the plans formed part of a wider strategic co-operation between the government of Sierra Leone and RusAl.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN fish products are imported into Europe, and processed, when can they be marketed as European fish products? The European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court has been asked to rule on whether the defrosting, heading, filleting, boning, trimming, salting and packing of fish imported frozen whole from outside the European Economic Area (the EU, plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein) creates a product under European law sufficiently different to be considered of European origin.…

BY PHILIP FINE

EMISSIONS trading programmes can achieve environmental goals faster and more economical than other alternative ecological policies, says report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The US group says that a well-designed and implemented cap-and-trade system ensures that environmental goals are met, regardless of where gases are emitted

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