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CRAZY DRINKS LAWS
BY PHILIP FINE
AT LEAST no one in today’s America has to contend with Carry Nation. She was the late-19th century Kansas reformer who crusaded against the sale and consumption of alcohol. Known as the original saloon smasher, she would burst into bars and cause as much damage as she could to drinking establishments.…
US AUSTRALIA ROW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIALIST ferrous metal United States government committee has criticised the recent free trade agreement struck between the US and Australia that will remove tariffs on iron, steel and related products traded between the two countries. The federal inter-sector advisory committee on ferrous ores and metals has concluded the although the deal itself does promote US interests, there are a number of elements that fail to cover concerns “which certainly affect our sector’s economic interests and the equity and reciprocity for the US overall that we seek in US trade agreements.”…
US NUCLEAR PLANT
BY MONICA DOBIE
A CONSORTIUM of seven major power companies is to apply for a license to build a new commercial power plant in the United States. EDF International North America, a subsidiary of Électricité de France, and the Westinghouse Electric Company, a BNFL subsidiary, are participating.…
US-CENTRAL AMERICA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representatives Office has been trying to play down the impact a new free trade deal with central American countries will have on US sugar producers. A briefing note however admits widened import quotas will equal 1.2 per cent of US production, rising to 1.7 per cent within 15 years, rising from 99,000 to 140,000 tonnes.…
EXPLORERS BREW
BY PHILIP FINE
A SMALL US brewer, wanting to give off that frontiersman feel, decided to use a famous image of America’s early-19th century explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark for an advertising campaign. Kansas City’s Boulevard Brewing Co. chose a 40-year-old logo featuring their silhouettes but rather than pointing a finger west, one of the explorers would now hold a bottle of Boulevard Pale Ale.…
US-CENTRAL AMERICA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representatives Office has been trying to play down the impact a new free trade deal with central American countries will have on US sugar producers. A briefing note however admits widened import quotas will equal 1.2 per cent of US production, rising to 1.7 per cent within 15 years, rising from 99,000 to 140,000 tonnes.…
NEW YORK SALES
BY MONICA DOBIE
A US Court of Appeals decision has dealt a serious blow to California wine producers by ruling that the state of New York may ban out-of-state wine producers from selling directly to local residents. The ruling says that New York could require that wineries establish a physical distributor (in the form of a shop or office) before being allowed to ship wine to consumers.…
US-OZ FTA NEW SHOES
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane
THE AUSTRALIAN footwear industry is cautious about the new Australia-US Free Trade Agreement. Almost all lines will immediately be tariff-free if the deal is ratified, with 17 products losing tariffs over the next decade. The industry has not yet received the final list of products affected, however.…
US SPIRITS ADS
BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN spirit producers are toning their marketing muscles these days because of the broader scope for advertising they have enjoyed since the end of a prohibition-hangover induced 50-year self-imposed ban on electronic media advertising.
It has only been since 1996 – when this Seagram defied this moratorium – that distillers have been able to realise this advertising potential.…
DRINKS-MUSIC LINK
BY PHILIP FINE
A NUMBER of major American drinks companies have signed up with
online music operators in a flurry of cross-promotional activity following growing public awareness of the fact that illegal music downloading could run the risk of legal action for consumers.…