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BY KEITH NUTHALL

MAKING a living in the Canadian Arctic is never easy in commercial terms, given the restrictions imposed by the weather, the distances to populous markets and extremely undeveloped transport: there are no roads to and from the territory of Nunavut.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INTERNAL political struggles within the European Union (EU) are delaying agreement over lifting the de facto ban on American poultry meat exports to the EU. There has been opposition by European Commission health officials, who have attached conditions to scrapping rules preventing chlorine treatment of poultry, common in America, and the main barrier preventing US exporters selling into Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Travel Retail Council (ETRC) has claimed assurances from the European Commission, that European Union (EU) airports will stop confiscating from October duty-free cosmetics and perfume pastes, gels and liquids bought in the USA and Canada. These have been seized from passengers taking connecting flights within Europe, after flying from north America.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

CHINA’S entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2002 and the recent end of quotas in the US and European markets have created gigantic changes in the textile industry worldwide, with developing markets like those in Latin America expected to suffer the most from these shifts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NORTH America’s last regulatory battle between butter and margarine producers will end, with the Canadian province of Québec deciding to lift its ban on yellow margarine. Its strong dairy lobby has long defended a provincial rule preventing margarine resembling butter, instead been sold in unappetising white.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) anti-fraud agency OLAF has reported in its latest annual report that its caseload is still growing – receiving 886 allegations of wrongdoing to probe in 2007, the highest ever, and up from 529 in 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RESISTANCE from within the European Commission’s health directorate general appears to have derailed plans to lift the de facto European Union (EU) ban on American poultry imports.

The Commission’s industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen has been pushing for the scrapping of EU health rules banning chlorine treatment of poultry, which have effectively kept US exports out of Europe: the practice is common in America.…

BY MARK ROWE, KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, GAVIN BLAIR and PAUL COCHRANE

EARTHQUAKES are not good news for nuclear power plants. In safety terms they are a serious risk, and they are usually a public relations disaster, even if no serious damage is done to a plant misfortunate enough to be in a quake.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FORMAL negotiations between the European Union (EU) and Russia over renewing the 1997 partnership and cooperation agreement between them are under way at last: formal talks started in Brussels on July 4, following a successful EU-Russia summit at the Siberian oil town of Khanty-Mansiysk..…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ANGLO-Dutch oil giant Shell is not in much doubt that hydrogen is one of the fuels of the future, if not the fuel of the future. Barely a month ago, in June, Duncan Macleod, (NOTE: SPELLING IS CORRECT) global vice president of Shell Hydrogen, told an clean technology conference in the US that Shell had restructured its organisation "to prepare for hydrogen’s transition into the mainstream, bringing it into our downstream fuels portfolio, alongside gasoline, diesel, LPG, CNG – as well as biofuels and GTL."…