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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has struck a deal with Brazil, increasing its rights to export 335,000 tonnes into the European Union (EU) of salted poultrymeat, turkey meat preparations and cooked chicken meat. Brussels has made a similar agreement with Thailand regarding it exporting 252,000 tonnes of salted poultry meat and cooked chicken meat to the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) has exempted from its standard free trade rules for a further six years countries involved in the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme combating ‘blood diamond’ sales.

Its current waiver was to expire December 31 and protects trade restrictions undertaken by participating countries preventing rough diamonds being exported to non-signatory states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has highlighted countries with particularly significant counterfeiting and piracy of medicinal products. Following 290 replies from businesses, trade associations and diplomatic missions, covering 63 countries, its survey report named Egypt as a real problem zone, criticising the December 2004 approval of 850 local copies of pharmaceuticals "without generic companies having to "prove the efficiency and safety of the copy".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

VIETNAM will be hoping that the approval this week of its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will improve the access to overseas markets enjoyed by its clothing and textile exporters. Membership means that Vietnam and its trading partners have promised to keep their mutual clothing and textile trades unimpeded by restrictive quotas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has struck a deal with Brazil, increasing its rights to export salted poultrymeat, turkey meat preparations and cooked chicken meat into the European Union (EU). The deal has solved a long running World Trade Organisation (WTO) battle, where Brazil successfully argued that the EU was denying it rights to export salted poultrymeat that it had previously accepted in the WTO’s 1994 Marrakesh Agreement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou has visited Brazil to pressure the Brazilian government into tightening its veterinary medicine residue and foot-and-mouth disease controls. Problems in both areas have led to restrictions on Brazilian meat sales to EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States is coming under pressure at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over its refusal of a licence allowing the registration of the contested Havana Club rum trademark to be renewed. Washington has already lost a WTO disputes case over the issue, with a panel declaring illegal clauses in its Omnibus Appropriations Act that prevent the registration of trademarks expropriated in the Cuban revolution after 1959.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has already started considering the potential shape of the eighth framework programme on research (which would start in 2014), even as the final details of its seventh predecessor are still being thrashed out.

Brussels’ directorate general (DG) for research commissioned a study, and it has recommended that the next big EU research programme look well beyond the shores of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.…

BY LIZ HALL

SIX years ago, government representatives from nine South American countries gathered in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, to sign a document of great importance to those concerned with fighting money-laundering (ML) and terrorism financing (TF).

On December 8, 2000, representatives of the governments of the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, signed the Founding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formally establishing GAFISUD, a regional body modelled on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Damascus and Amman

JORDAN and Syria both have large tobacco markets, with a third of Jordan’s population, and around 60% of Syria’s male population, being smokers. Both markets are growing, spurred on by large young populations and the cultural prevalence of smoking cigarettes and nargileh (water pipes), but not all is rosy in the sector.…