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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission arguments backing its proposed reform of the EU sugar regime have been strengthened by an interim decision by the World Trade Organisation that EU subsidies to the sugar sector are illegal. The claim was brought by Brazil, Thailand and Australia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRAZIL and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) are setting up an International Forum on Creative Industries. Based in Brazil, it will help developing countries generate wealth from creative industries, such as the recording, photography, commercial art, music production and films.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lifted a remaining requirement for 20% of Brazilian poultry meat exports into the European Union (EU) to be tested for residues of nitrofuran antibiotics. All such cargoes had been tested after October 2002, with the proportion eased to 20% this March following improvements in Brazilian production standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lifted a remaining requirement for 20% of Brazilian poultry meat exports into the European Union (EU) to be tested for residues of nitrofuran antibiotics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WTO disputes panel has ruled that EU sugar subsidies break global trade rules, although the European Commission is expected to appeal. The case was brought by Brazil, Thailand and Australia and the ruling follows the announcement of reforms to the EU’s sugar market system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COUNTERVAILING and antidumping duties imposed by the United States on Canadian exports of carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod have been undermined by a strongly critical ruling a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel.

US International Trade Commission (ITC) inquiries leading to the tariffs’ imposition in 2002 were challenged by Canada’s Ivaco Inc and Ivaco Rolling Mills Inc.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission arguments backing its proposed reform of the European Union (EU) sugar regime have been strengthened by an interim decision by the World Trade Organisation that existing EU subsidies to the sugar sector are illegal. The claim was brought by Brazil, Thailand and Australia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ENERGY portfolio at the European Commission is being downgraded this November with the departure of Spain’s Loyola de Palacio, a vice-president as well as an energy commissioner. Hungary’s foreign minister László Kovacs – who will be a standard commissioner without the transport portfolio also commanded by De Palacio – is replacing her.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, will provide up to US$90 million in financing to Comgás, Brazil’s largest piped natural gas distributor. The loan help the company expand and upgrade its distribution network, making gas available to 70,000 new customers in five years, and 200,000 in 10.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DOMINICAN Republic heads the list of countries granted low rate tariff quotas by the USA for sugar and sugar-containing product imports made in 2004-5. It has been allocated a 185,335 tonne quota, followed by Brazil with 152,691 tonnes and Philippines, 142,160.…