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BY JONATHAN THOMSON
PRESSURE from consumers and regulators have forced automotive manufacturers to re-examine the vehicle construction process from top to bottom in recent years. Increasing fuel prices coupled with drivers’ demands for improved performance has meant that the use of lighter materials, such as aluminium and composites which are bonded using adhesives, has become far more widespread, and could be set to become even more commonplace in volume production.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States and Mongolia have negotiated a trade and investment framework agreement, creating a bilateral council charged with boosting the countries’ trade in textile and other goods. Mongolian textiles and clothing dominate its annual US$183.4 million exports to America.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST counterfeiting press for Euro banknotes uncovered in Latin America has been seized by Columbian police, working with Interpol, who netted 54,400 forged 100 Euro notes, 104,700 fake US dollars and a lithograph machine in Bogota, the capital.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have warned that claims the USA is facing an obesity epidemic and that overweight people face serious health risks are exaggerated and misleading.

Paul Campos a University of Colorado professor and author of a book, The Obesity Myth, says that some government research is based on “junk science” that has caused an unnecessary fear across America.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists believe that a fungus is to blame for the accelerated decline and, in some cases, extinction of frogs and toads in north and central America and Australia James P. Collins, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist at Arizona State University told the Los Angeles Times that 32 strains of the emerging pathogen called batrachochytrium dendrobatidis have been linked to three-fourths of frogs species in decline in Costa Rica and Panama.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the deadline for the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) security code passes today (July 1) with just over half of ships and ports in compliance, maritime insurers are considering whether policies should exclude coverage for shipping losses caused by failures to implement these rules.…

Keith Nuthall
USA sales of textile and clothing made in sub-Saharan Africa have been increasing solidly as a result of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which promotes trade by allowing duty free exports of products into America. That is the conclusion of a new report from the US Trade Representative (USTR) office on the act’s influence on trade and investment policy towards and in the region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representative has claimed more than 95 per cent of US imports from sub-Saharan African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) eligible countries now enter America duty free. Exports rose by 55 per cent to US$14 billion from 2002 to 2003, mainly through higher oil sales.…

Keith Nuthall
NEGOTIATIONS on a comprehensive open skies deal involving the European Union (EU) and the United States are being held up, with the US refusing to allow EU carriers cabotage rights within America. The European Commission also wants EU companies to be able to buy majority control of US airlines.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
DATA from the Atlanta, USA’s Centers for Disease Control has shown alarming levels of pesticide contamination in North America. Researchers tested the blood and urine of 9,000 people for levels of 23 pesticides, and found that 100 per cent of the subjects carried detectable levels of contamination.…