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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend Euro millions over the next three years promoting French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Austrian wines in key foreign markets. Announcing the latest of a series of such grants, (matched by national funding), Brussels noted that the main targets would be north America, China, Russia, India, Japan and non-European Union countries in central and eastern Europe.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICA’S microbrewers sold 7% more beer in 2004 versus 2003, making so-called ‘craft’ beer the fastest growing segment of the US beverage alcohol industry, according to the Brewers Association, (NOTE – NO APOSTRAPHE) the Boulder, Colorado, based trade association for this sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A US judge has granted a request by an American cattlemen’s group to temporarily halt plans to reopen the border to Canadian cattle, which had been planned for this week. R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America argued that the opening of borders would present risks of BSE from Canada infiltrating US herds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend the majority of a new Euro 5 million budget over the next three years promoting French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Austrian wines in key foreign markets. Brussels noted that the main targets would be north America, China, Russia, India, Japan and non-European Union countries in central and eastern Europe.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICA’S RJ Reynolds Co. has agreed to settle out of court in a dispute over whether it violated terms of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement in California which banned tobacco companies from advertising to youths in publications such as Vibe, Sports Illustrated, Spin, Hot Rod, Rolling Stone and Car and Driver.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IF you are looking for a smart way to launder money, the purchase and sale of precious metals ought to be as good as any around. Outlining its proposed rules for the sector in early 2003, the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) noted that precious metals (mainly gold, silver and platinum) were “easily transportable, highly concentrated forms of wealth” which could be converted into cash anywhere in the world, were actively traded and could be melted to obliterate refinery marks making them “virtually untraceable.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW banana trade war with Latin America may erupt after the European Commission formally announced that it intends to triple tariffs from 2006 to Euro 230/tonne. Restrictive quotas would no longer apply, however.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORGET about global warming, European scientists are currently more concerned about record low temperatures in the Arctic region, which they claim are thinning the northern hemisphere’s ozone layer to dangerously thin depths. Although Europe, Asia and north America have pumped most of the world’s ozone-depleting chemicals into the atmosphere, it is in the south where the notorious ozone hole has appeared, bringing skin cancers to Australasia and other regions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THREE Belgian brothers – who launched Lithuania’s second largest supermarket chain after the country quitted the ex-USSR – have secured Euro 40 million equity investment by a major US finance house. The European Commission has approved America’s Citigroup Inc taking a minority share in the Ortiz brother’s UAB Palink group.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INSURANCE industry will wait attentively for the responses due in May to formal requests made this week by the European Commission for its World Trade Organisation (WTO) partners to liberalise their financial sectors.

These notes were made within the WTO’s Doha Development Round’s talks on services, which are in technical terms more advanced than the other portions of the negotiations.…