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BY ALAN OSBORN

A NEW crisis over the presence of genetically modified (GM) ingredients in food and livestock feed has once more focused attention on the European Union’s (EU’s) controversial GM policies. It has especially raised the spectre of job losses, farm bankruptcies and higher consumer prices if a relaxation of the current de facto zero tolerance restriction applying to unauthorised GM products is not agreed soon.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

REAPPLYING perfume ten times a day may not count as an addiction, but the ingredients found in your favourite scent could certainly lead to one: cosmetic ingredients have been historically targeted by clandestine drug manufacturers as sources of chemicals used to produce illicit street drugs such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

GIVING Sudafed to a stuffed-up patient hardly seems unusual, but in the hands of clandestine drug producers decongestants can become downright dangerous. Used to make methamphetamines (also known as ‘crystal meth’), drug barons crave common pharmaceuticals to keep their operations moving.…

By Leah Germain

The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) is investing US$8 million into Colombia’s private higher education sector to promote affordable technical and professional education for the country’s low and middle-income students. The funds will help finance the private Colombian university, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto).…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

TRANSPORT infrastructure investments to help grow Argentina’s major (but currently troubled) soy export sector have continued, with the hope that the recent growth in the industry will become permanent.

In the mid-1990’s Argentina was producing a modest 11 to 12 million metric tonnes (mt) of soy per year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOOTBALL maybe the ‘beautiful game’, but it is also a cesspool of international commercial crime. Keith Nuthall reports.

THERE has always been more than a hint of raffishness about the world’s most popular sport football, or soccer as it is known in north America and Australasia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THERE is much work required by the United States government and the European Union (EU) to disarm trade barriers impeding EU auto exports, a new European Commission report has claimed.

The EU executive highlights three particular grumbles with existing US legislation, it claims gives American (and Canadian) automakers unfair advantages over European rivals.…

BY RUSSELL BERMAN

THE AMERICAN bio-based oils and fats sector is watching closely the development of key proposals and recommendations that could significantly alter the way goods are shipped across the country.

One of its most pressing transport concerns is an advancing proposal to end a decades-long antitrust exemption for freight rail.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a report highlighting American trade barriers that impede European Union (EU) cosmetics exports to the USA. Brussels and Washington have been discussing outstanding tariff and red-tape problems through a Transatlantic Economic Council. But a new Commission-published US Barriers to Trade and Investment Report for 2008 stressed "trade barriers and differences that hinder trade and investment."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WIDE range of concerns about American trade barriers impeding European Union (EU) wine and spirit exports to the USA have been highlighted in a new European Commission report. Its US Barriers to Trade and Investment Report for 2008 stressed "there still exist trade barriers…that hinder trade".…