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WORLDWIDE EFFORTS TO MAKE TANKERS LESS POLLUTING ARE MAKING PROGRESS
BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London; LUCY JONES, in Dallas; JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo; and KEITH NUTHALL
GIVEN the spate of oil tanker accidents in recent years involving substantial pollution of seas and coastlines around the world, it is no surprise that international organisations have weighed in with regulatory controls and guidelines on shipping standards.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION PREPARES TO RECOMMEND PROTECTIVE DUTIES ON US BIODIESEL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PRICE of American biodiesel exports to the European Union could rise in future. The European Commission has launched a formal investigation into fears America is unfairly subsidising its biodiesel producers, accused of also exporting fuel at below cost-price, damaging EU producers.…
CHINA STRUGGLES TO SQUARE ITS BIOFUEL PRODUCTION PLANS WITH GLOBAL INCREASES IN FOOD PRICES
BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing
WORRIES about inflation and food shortages have left the Chinese government struggling to balance efforts to temper inflation with its ambitious biofuels development programme. Increasing demand for food and biofuels in China have been a key driver in increasing global consumption of fats and oils at an average 4% per year according to the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO).…
DEMAND FOR WHITENING COSMETICS EXPANDING BEYOND ITS EAST ASIAN BASE, SAYS KANEBO
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
THE OBSESSION among many European women for tanned skin is fading, particularly among women in their late 30s, according to a new study by Japan’s Kanebo Cosmetics, meaning there is a small but growing market for whitening products.…
USA AND EU COOPERATE TO DEVELOP NEW ANIMAL TEST ALTERNATIVES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN and European Union (EU) scientists will intensify joint development of alternative cosmetics tests that replace experiments using animals. A United States-European Union summit in Slovenia agreed the US Food and Drug Administration and European Commission would "further their cooperation in the peer review of unvalidated alternative methods" (including products considered medicines in America and cosmetics in the EU).…
Lebanon's turbulent friendship with the international community
By Paul Cochrane, Beirut How the Lebanese view international institutions and the world at large depends on sectarian and political allegiances. With Lebanon a microcosm of the macro political-economic issues facing the Middle East today - due to the country’s geographical position bordering Israel and Syria, and the country’s political-sectarian divisions between Sunnis, Shias, Druze and Christians - Lebanon is where the powers that be flex their muscles. And with Lebanese political leaders looking to outside powers to consolidate their domestic position, whether you are pro- or anti- Western depends on the politics of the day.
But that, like any brief summary of Lebanon, is a simplification, as although the Hizbullah led opposition is ostensibly anti-Western, strongly backed by Iran and ardently anti-Zionist, fellow opposition party the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) is predominantly Christian and pro-Western.…
WTO LAYS DOWN THE LAW ON EUROPE'S DISCRIMINATORY BANANA REGIME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) compliance panel has formally rejected the European Union’s (EU) discriminatory trade regime favouring imports of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) bananas over those from Latin America. It said the EU 2005 "duty-free tariff quota for bananas originating in ACP countries… failed to implement the…rulings" of the WTO.…
SOUTH ASIAN KNITWEAR INDUSTRY HAVING MIXED FORTUNES AS GLOBALISATION INTENSIFIES
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH, in Lahore; and KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo
THE SOUTH Asian knitwear industry is experienced mixed fortunes at present, with the impact of China’s production boom and the global liberalisation of the textile sector still changing sub-continental fortunes.…
WTO LAYS DOWN THE LAW ON EUROPE'S DISCRIMINATORY BANANA REGIME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is official: the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will have no truck with the European Union’s (EU) discriminatory trade regime favouring imports of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) bananas over those from Latin America. In its 2005 "duty-free tariff quota for bananas originating in ACP countries, the European Union has failed to implement the…rulings" of the WTO, ruled a special compliance panel requested by the USA.…
BRUSSELS MOVES TO PREVENT POSSIBLE FUEL PRICE RISES IN SCANDINAVIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has sought to head off possible fuel price rises across Scandinavia by opening a detailed inquiry into a planned takeover in the region’s petrol station sector. Brussels fears the planned takeover of the Jet chain from America’s ConocoPhillips by Norwegian oil giant StatoilHydro, could limit petrol and diesel retail competition in Norway and Sweden.…