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BY KEITH NUTHALL

DETAILED documentation requirements required for the international trade in genetically modified foodstuffs have been agreed by parties to the Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety. The European Commission has hailed the documents as "clear, meaningful and practical for both exporters and importers of agricultural products".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced plans to spend Euro 702,993 over three years on promoting Portuguese Madeira wine in the USA, Canada, Brazil and Japan. The money will be funelled to the

Instituto do Vinho da Madeira (IVM), and will be matched by funding from the Portugal government and private sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) will have until June 27 to reclassify its customs designation of frozen boneless chicken cut imports, a World Trade Organisation (WTO) arbitrator has ruled. Brussels must admit into the EU cuts of 1.2%-3% salt content as ‘salted’ rather than ‘frozen’ cuts, meaning lower duties will apply.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN line with the growing recognition in the 1980s of anti-money laundering campaigns as a weapon against terrorism and increased knowledge global drug supply routes, (implicating a number of Latin American countries), governments of the western hemisphere concluded that greater formal co-operation was necessary in fighting dirty money.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN line with the growing recognition in the 1980s of anti-money laundering campaigns as a weapon against terrorism and increased knowledge global drug supply routes, (implicating a number of Latin American countries), governments of the western hemisphere concluded that greater formal co-operation was necessary in fighting dirty money.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A PROPOSAL by the European Union (EU) trade commissioner Peter Mandelson to impose provisional anti-dumping duties of 19.4 % on imported leather shoes from China and 16.8% on those from Vietnam has sparked protests from the Chinese Leather Association (CLA), caused concern among EU retailers and importers, while bringing uncertainty into the global leather market.…

BY LUCY JONES

A new kind of executive is cutting an impression in the traditionally male-dominated brewery boardrooms. They are dedicated, tough and often young – and being female, a rare breed in the drinks environment.

As the beer business expands and perceptions change, women are increasingly rising to the top of the industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PARIS (ICIS News)–The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has exempted Hanita Coatings Rural Cooperative Association Ltd, of Hanita, Israel, from existing definitive 53% anti-dumping and 19.1% countervailing duties on imports of polyethylene terephthalate film from India, Brazil and Israel.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DECEMBER 2005’s semi-successful World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong means that the sacrifice forced upon the European Union’s (EU) well protected sugar sector the month before will – largely – be worth the pain. Unlike the previous big WTO meeting, in Cancun, Mexico, trade ministers did not leave in rancour having achieved little.…

EU SUGAR REFORM MARKET REPORT – CAP

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DECEMBER 2005’s semi-successful World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong means that the sacrifice forced upon the European Union’s (EU) well protected sugar sector the month before will – largely – be worth the pain.…