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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A USA-Australia trade deal could be threatened by excluded Australian sugar producers, who have threatened their influence within the Australian senate to stall ratification as their US sugar export quota remains at 87,000 tonnes. Australian Canegrowers president Jim Pedersen said Canberra “has an obligation to let us share in some of the (deal’s) benefits”.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE INTERNATIONAL trade deal between the USA and Australia – which has been welcomed by the antipodean non-ferrous metals industry – could be threatened by anger amongst Australian sugar producers who have been excluded. They say they may use their influence amongst right-wing and independent members of the Australian senate to stall ratification, in a chamber not numerically controlled by the country’s Liberal-National government.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PHARMACEUTICAL sector is a key element of a free trade agreement recently struck between the USA and Australia, although some onlookers claim Washington failed to achieve many of its aims regarding the industry. Nonetheless, the US Trade Representative’s office lauded the fact that Australia would make product-listing procedures within its pharmaceuticals benefits scheme more transparent, notably through the creation of an independent review process.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The US Department of Agriculture has launched a US $53-million project to map the genetic makeup of cattle in the hope it will promote human health by controlling animal disease.

The multinational Bovine Genome Sequencing Project will be carried out by universities in the US and Canada.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Ministers of the 15 EU countries have agreed to a new rule exemption that will allow US wines to be sold in the Union even though the Americans use oenological practices that are forbidden under EU legislation. Similar exemptions have been granted to Australia and Argentina.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BEST place to break the law is where the closest policeman is 100’s of miles away. And where might that criminal utopia be? Siberia, the Sahara, the Amazon? No, it’s the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, on the developed world’s doorstep, where fishing crime is becoming a real problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided that it will not use its international merger control powers to oppose Anglo American’s bid for complete control of South-African mining company Kumba Resources, having examined the two players’ overlap in zircon and titanium dioxide.…

BY RICHARD HURST
BHP Billiton, one of the world’s largest aluminium producers, has claimed that the boom in Chinese aluminium smelting is putting pressure on global alumina stocks and that any unforeseen disruptions to the world supply of the mineral would have an immediate affect on production of the metal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALL but one of the commonly used forms of asbestos have been added to a United Nations blacklist, enabling countries to block further imports without being challenged in global tribunals such as the World Trade Organisation. Amosite, actinolite, anthophyllite and tremolite were added to the Rotterdam Convention Prior Informed Consent (PIC) list by an intergovernmental negotiating committee, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.…

BY RICHARD HURST
MOZAMBIQUE President Joachim Chissano has announced that his country would begin initiating steps to become involved in the downstream activities of aluminium production. Speaking at the inauguration of the Mozal II project in Maputo on Thursday (9-10), Chissano revealed that his government had been engaged in talks with various investors to fund aluminium-manufacturing facilities.…