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BY MONICA DOBIE
IMPERIAL Tobacco Leaf Inc., a subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco Canada, has struck a deal with Simcoe Leaf Tobacco Co. Ltd, of Simcoe, Ontario, to carry out its leaf threshing operations. The move comes following the closure of Imperial’s own threshing plant in nearby Aylmer, part of major restructuring plans announced in June.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has welcomed Canada’s push to enact legislation allowing makers of generic medicines to export cheaper versions of patented HIV/AIDS drugs to poor countries. The UN agency says that Canada is the first developed country to take advantage of the recent World Trade Organisation deal over generic medicine exports.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has welcomed what it says is the imminent ratification of the United Nations Agreement on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks by the European Union, which should help Ottawa conserve its hard-pressed fishing reserves.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A CDN$3 billion oilsands project in Alberta, Canada, proposed by Nexen Inc. and OPTI Canada Inc., has been given provincial government approval. 40 kilometres southeast of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, it will begin production in 2006. Its first phase entails the production of 70,000 barrels per day of steam-assisted gravity drainage oil, with an integrated upgrading facility scheduled to run in 2007.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH European Union ministers poised this autumn to choose their preferred site to host the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER), an independent EU assessment of the two key EU contenders has officially concluded that both the French site Cadarache, and the Spain’s Vandellós “would be likely to win the international site selection”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA, Canada and Argentina have requested a WTO disputes panel be established to rule on the EU’s de facto five-year freeze on approving the import of new genetically modified foodstuffs. The three countries claim it is illegal under world trade law.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN asbestos industry is redoubling its efforts to persuade the European Union to reverse its ban on chrysotile asbestos using the findings of a new study, which backs arguments that the mineral is safer for human use than some alternative materials.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DISPUTE proceedings panel has now been established at the World Trade Organisation to rule on the legality of the European Union’s sugar export subsidies. Australia, Brazil and Thailand allege the handouts break world trade laws. Barbados, Canada, China, Colombia, Jamaica, Mauritius, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago and the US reserved their right to participate.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-GLOBALISATION activists will not like it, but there are signs that September’s World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun might be able to deliver what has eluded political leaders since the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation talks began in 2000: the beginnings of a deal.…