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BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) seven-year-old Doha Development Round maybe drawing towards a close, the plastics industry might start considering that a final deal may lead to the elimination of most import duties on its products worldwide.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

MOVE over solar power: make room for the new power generator – the knee brace! Motorised prosthetic joints are great – but shame they need a battery. The same can be said about pacemakers. But American and Canadian researchers now claim we can generate sufficient energy to drive these devices by simply going for a walk.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) seven-year-old Doha Development Round maybe drawing towards a close, the cosmetics, soap and perfumery industries might start considering that a final deal may lead to the elimination of most import duties on their products, worldwide.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

CANADA’S first wine-making cooperative has entered receivership, facing almost CDN$40 million in debts, according to court documents. Southern Ontario’s Niagara Vintners was forced into the hands of receivers Deloitte & Touche Inc by the cooperative’s Bank of Nova Scotia.…

BY MARK ROWE

WHEN the European Union’s (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, visited Turkmenistan last autumn it served notice that this central Asian ex-Soviet republic had come in from the cold. Once a pariah on the international stage, because of the activity of its crazed former president Sapamurat Niyazov (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT), Turkmenistan has become something more than a bit player in the international energy sector.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

CANADIAN book buying culture has changed dramatically over the past 15 years resulting in a discount obsessed, bestseller driven market that has gone flat despite a record number of books being released by Canadian publishers says a recent report conducted for Heritage Canada, a Federal government agency.…

BY CHRIS JONES, in Pennsylvania, USA

HERSHEY, the biggest chocolate manufacturer in the USA, has insisted that the majority of its confectionary will continue to be produced in the US and Canada, despite a restructuring plan that will see some production shift to Mexico.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FISH and seafood processing industry could get a big shot in the arm this year, if the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) seven-year-old Doha Development Round reaches a successful conclusion, as planned. If it does, all import duties on fish and fish products traded worldwide would be significantly reduced and there is a chance they could be eliminated altogether.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR, in Tokyo

THOUGH the number of academic specialists in commercial crime in the Asia-Pacific region may be fewer than in the US or Europe, many of the leading figures are both willing to work with corporate clients and have a great deal of experience outside the ivory towers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CLOTHING and textile exporters may have thought they had heard the last word from the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after the expiry of its Agreement on Textiles and Clothing in 2005 and with it, the end of restrictive quotas for clothes and cloth traded between the 151 WTO members.…