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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN IRISH company’s plan to help 1,600 meat and dairy producers in Latin America adopt technology capturing and disposing of methane has been supported by a US$10 million loan from the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC). AgCert International plc actually wants to spend US$150 million on rolling out these systems over the next three years, especially in Brazil and Mexico.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ONLY in America would you find investment and commodity trading advisors ranked as professionals, with their own formal association, codes of practice, mission statement and newsletter. This is not to mock them but rather to acknowledge the extent to which the US investment scene has developed powerful and sophisticated bodies of professional experts that seem hardly to exist at all in other countries.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A WHOLE slew of activities is covered by people calling themselves brokers in the US but here we’re concerned with those who buy and sell securities in the straightforward way on behalf of others (brokers) or for themselves (dealers) and those who deal in options for future delivery of a range of items like agricultural commodities, oil, precious metals, equities, bonds and foreign currencies (futures commission merchants or FCMs).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States’ Distilled Spirits Council has congratulated the US Congress for approving the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) for opening central American markets to USA spirit exports. Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua) and the Dominican Republic will immediately abolish tariffs on US-produced whiskey and gin.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
INSURERS should have a much clearer idea of the risks involved in extending cover to the areas hit by the tsunami at the end of last year following agreement by 23 Indian Ocean nations to share data and set up seven regional warning centres.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEXICO has appealed against a refusal by a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel to order the United States to immediately scrap anti-dumping duties on Mexican oil country tubular goods (OCTG). It wants a WTO appellate body to make such a decision, even though the panel did order the US government to review the duties because of errors made in their imposition.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
NEW Zealand might only have a population of just over four million people but it has a paint manufacturing industry of some note. Anyone who has visited the capital, Wellington, or seen pictures of it, will remember the rows of brightly coloured houses along the waterfront.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THAT criminals abuse the insurance industry is nothing new for a sector routinely screening claims for hints of fraud. However, its managers have proved far less alert to the risk of it being exploited by money launderers and terrorist financers, a new detailed report has claimed.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECENT USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report has found many online pharmacies declaring they are based in Canada, selling cheap drugs under local liberal medicine sales laws, are actually based in the US or outside North America, in Vietnam and the Czech Republic, for instance.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECENT USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report has found many online pharmacies declaring they are based in Canada, selling cheap drugs under local liberal medicine sales laws, are actually based in the US or outside North America, in Vietnam and the Czech Republic, for instance.…