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BY KEITH NUTHALL

CONCERNS that Brazilian beef producers are hoodwinking international animal and food health regulators by using superficial controls, have prompted European Union (EU) import ban calls. Irish MEP Mairead McGuinness told a European Parliament agriculture committee today (Mon 15-7): “It is important not only from a human health point of view but also from an ethical aspect.”…

BY ANDREW CAVE

BIOFUELS have generated earnest debate ever since German inventor Rudolph Diesel ran the world’s first diesel engine on peanut oil back in 1894, but suddenly there is a biofuels boom that’s moving global markets.
World economies are in a race to find alternatives to fossil fuels and turning crops such as wheat and corn into ethanol or oilseed rape, soya, or palm oil into biodiesel is having an impact on farmers, manufacturer and industrial producers worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INCREASED demand for bio-fuels could drive up world prices for many farm products, notably sugar, according to an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and UN Food and Agriculture Organisation report. It predicted that Brazilian annual ethanol production alone would reach 44 billion litres by 2016 from around 21 billion today.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck an important deal with Algeria, ensuring it supplies gas to European markets competitively, scrapping restrictive profit sharing contracts. Algeria is a key gas exporter in the EU’s fight to secure energy security without relying on Russia, and Algiers has now agreed with the European Commission that pipeline gas can be sold-on within Europe, without a cut going to Algerian gas producer Sonatrach.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ARGENTINA has formally requested the creation of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel to rule on whether Brazil broke the WTO’s anti-dumping agreement when imposing tough anti-dumping duties on Argentine exports of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resins. Buenos Aires claims Brazil railroaded the tariffs through WTO-sanctioned legal procedures, ignoring commitments to properly consult with Argentine producers and carefully assess whether Brazilian PET manufacturer claims of cut-priced exports from Argentina actually held water.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ARGENTINA has formally requested the creation of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel to rule on whether Brazil broke the WTO’s anti-dumping agreement when imposing tough anti-dumping duties on Argentine exports of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resins. Buenos Aires claims Brazil railroaded the tariffs through WTO-sanctioned legal procedures, ignoring commitments to properly consult with Argentine producers and carefully assess whether Brazilian PET manufacturer claims of cut-priced exports from Argentina actually held water.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OIL and gas sector was always a global business, and with world trade increasing and new reserves being opened up in all continents and oceans, it is becoming ever more international. As a result, the need for common standards and practices, relevant to the industry, its suppliers and its customers is becoming increasingly important.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE OIL and gas sector was always a global business, and with world trade increasing and new reserves being opened up in all continents and oceans, it is becoming ever more international. As a result, the need for common standards and practices, relevant to the industry, its suppliers and its customers is becoming increasingly important.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OILS and fats sector is becoming increasingly globalised and so as a result, the need for common standards and practices, relevant to the industry, its suppliers and its customers is becoming increasingly important.

The International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) (NOTE: ISO USES AMERICAN SPELLING FOR ITS NAME) is the global body coordinating and publishing this kind of professional advice.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States’ diplomatic service is surely the largest and best resourced international network of experts in the world, and this is born out by the depth of the narcotics strategy report – or INCSR to use its acronym.…