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THE TEXTILE sectors of the European Union (EU) and the United States are keeping a close eye on negotiations under way to create a planned EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. This would be the world’s largest bilateral trade deal, and would aim to go beyond standard trade agreements by addressing technical rules that can impede trades in manufactured goods such as textiles, such as labelling, classification and chemical controls.…

The Brazilian textile manufacturing industry may come under threat as neighbouring Peru eyes up opportunities for expansion in Latin America’s biggest textile market. Peru currently exports USD102 million in textiles and apparel to Brazil annually (in 2012), and these exports have been increasing annually by 15% on average since 2010 according to the Brazilian Textile and Apparel Industry Association (ABIT).…

THE NEGOTIATIONS for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and the United States, which started this month in Washington DC (July 8), could push the world towards a truly global vehicle regulatory system for the first time, according to EU sources close to the negotiations.…

IN the most populous city in the United States (population of about 8.34 million as of July 2012, traffic managers in New York City employ inter-agency cooperation and high tech solutions to fight congestion. “The New York City department of transportation has a very sophisticated traffic management system,” said José Holguín-Veras, director of the New York-based Centre for Infrastructure, Transportation and the Environment.…

As befits a country as connected online as South Korea traffic controls in its capital Seoul are organised centrally and in an integrated way. As one of the world’s largest cities, with a population exceeding 10 million, Seoul has notoriously heavy traffic.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission yesterday (Wednesday) released documents showing that it wants the US to ban export restrictions on selling raw materials to the European Union, during negotiations for the planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. This would be the world’s largest bilateral trade deal, and the Commission has been uncharacteristically transparent by publishing its initial negotiating documents.…

POPULAR models in the Brazilian car market are likely to vanish from the streets in Latin America’s largest nation as new safety standards come into play. Brazilian automotive experts have said that the upcoming car safety law, which will be enforced from the start of 2014, will make popular models such as the Volkswagen Kombi, still commonly driven in Brazil, unfit for driving and too costly to upgrade.…

THE ELECTION of tobacco magnate Horacio Cartes as Paraguay’s President cy was mired by scandalous accusations of corruption, and now experts say he will do little to confront the country’s flourishing contraband cigarette trade.
Mr Cartes, 56, is a business tycoon and newcomer to politics who owns more than 20 companies, including Paraguay’s largest cigarette manufacturer Tabacalera del Este (Tabesa).…

The administration of US President Barack Obama administration has proposed a new anti-money laundering (AML) National Action Plan, which should help America bring its already robust AML regime closer to the revised Recommendations agreed in February 2012 by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).…

The privatisation and expansion of the Brazilian airport sector has proved to be a significant opportunity for the American civil aviation sector, which has been vying for opportunities in Brazil’s air navigation, airport and airport-related services. These opportunities are set to increase with the United States Trade and Development Agency’s (USTDA) having brokered a US-Brazil Aviation Partnership, signed last April and now being rolled out in earnest.…