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BY KEITH NUTHALL

NON-EUROPEAN Union (EU) nuclear operators do not have to ask the European Commission permission to export uranium enriched within the EU, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has concluded. Miguel Poiares Maduro was advising on a complex legal case focusing on the control of Brazilian-owned uranium transferred from Europe to the United States.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

THE COSMETICS and toiletries market in the Middle East is booming with 12% growth expected this year in a US$2.1 billion sector. Market trends differ from country to country, but the general trend is rising demand for European cosmetics over local products in the wealthier Arab countries, largely due to aggressive marketing campaigns by the major brands, and high demand for unregistered, fake brand name perfumes in countries with sizeable low-income populaces, such as Egypt, Lebanon and Syria.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NON-EUROPEAN Union (EU) uranium owners do not have to ask the European Commission permission to export uranium enriched within the EU, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has concluded. Miguel Poiares Maduro was advising on a complex legal case focusing on the control of Brazilian-owned uranium transferred from Europe to the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, is the international organisation companies turn to when they want to invest in a jurisdiction where their assets might not be that safe. Oil and gas companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and at December 2005, MIGA had supported 13 oil and gas projects, with guarantees totalling US$707 million, with a standard leverage of five-to-one, so investments covered are actually five times larger.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

AFRICA’S tobacco leaf producers are facing troubled times.

Instead of capitalising on crop and currency woes in rival Brazil, too many producers across the world’s poorest continent are battling drought and low selling prices.

Brazil’s problems should have opened a door of opportunity for leading African producers to claim back at least part of the world leaf market lost to south American and other producers when Zimbabwe’s crop collapsed amid the violent seizure of white-owned farm land.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to ban Brazilian beef imports into the European Union from the cattle-rich Mato Grosso do Sul state, west-central Brazil, following a foot-and-mouth outbreak. The ban will apply to meat from animals slaughtered since September 30, affecting more than half of Brazilian exports to the EU, said Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to ban Brazilian beef imports into the European Union from the cattle-rich Mato Grosso do Sul state, west-central Brazil, following a foot-and-mouth outbreak. The ban will apply to meat from animals slaughtered since September 30, affecting more than half of Brazilian exports to the EU, said Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRAZILIAN government has been racing to limit the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in its top beef exporting state in Mato Grosso do Sul, appointing an emergency task force to pinpoint its origin and prevent the disease spreading.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to ban Brazilian beef imports into the EU from cattle-rich Mato Grosso do Sul state, west-central Brazil, following a foot-and-mouth outbreak. The ban will apply to meat from animals slaughtered since September 30, affecting more than half of Brazilian exports to the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILS of restrictions imposed on exports to European buyers of leather raw materials have been highlighted in the detailed European Union (EU) market report. It identifies India, China, the US, Pakistan and Russia as “very important markets” for the supply of leather raw materials, whilst Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, South Africa, Malaysia and Brazil are labelled as “important suppliers (mainly by tanners)”.…