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BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRAZIL has requested formal talks with the United States at the World Trade Organisation to pressure Washington into lifting anti-dumping duties that it has imposed on Brazilian exports of silicon metal.

These were imposed in 1991 and include metal produced by the Companhia Brasileira Carbureto de Cálcio, (CBCC); it has regularly participated in annual administrative reviews of its dumping margin, applying the duties to be scrapped.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRAZIL and the USA have struck a deal over the licensing of generic drugs, which should see an end to the looming World Trade Organisation dispute between the two countries, brought by the American government.

The Brazilian government have agreed to consult the US, if in the future it thinks that it might have to use its Article 68 law to a grant compulsory licence on patents held by US companies.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
MOLSON Inc. has announced that it will close its Regina, Saskatchewan brewery as part of a cost-cutting scheme, which will save the company $150 million (CND) over a period of three years.

“Our review of our capacity utilisation in our western Canadian brewery network has unfortunately led us to make this difficult decision,” said Daniel J.…