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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is facing a mass attack on its sugar export subsidies at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). They have been formally challenged by both Australia and Brazil, with the Ivory Coast, Congo, Madagascar, Columbia, Canada, Kenya, Barbados, India, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Jamaica, Swaziland, Fiji, Guyana and Mauritius expected to line up behind them in support.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANZ Fischler has given himself a tough job; trying to persuade dairy farmers it is time to expose themselves to unfettered world markets when prices are at rock bottom, while facing hostility to further CAP reform from some European Union governments, notably France.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WOMEN who smoke as teenagers have a 70 per cent greater risk of developing breast cancer than their non-smoking peers, claims a study by the British Columbia Cancer Agency, Canada. Research showed that women who started smoking within five years of starting menstruation were significantly more likely to develop breast cancer before reaching 50 than non-smokers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has joined forces with Australia, Argentina, Canada, New Zealand and other large drinks exporters, in proposing that a register of geography-linked names of wines and spirits – now being discussed at the World Trade Organisation – should be voluntary, carrying little legal weight.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
SMALL-SHOP owners in Saskatchewan will be bound by the province’s Tobacco Control Act, which prohibits the display of cigarettes in retail outlets where they can be seen by under-18’s, after the collapse of a court challenge by a tobacco firm that argued the law is unconstitutional in Canada.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CREATING finished leather from tanned leather, (in its wet state), is not sufficiently important a manufacturing process to warrant the final product being legally considered a new good, made in the country where it was processed rather than where it was sourced, the chairman of a special World Trade Organisation committee has advised.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
MICHAEL Grimaldi, president of General Motors Canada, has warned that the country’s automobile manufacture sector will continue to lose business to the United States unless more money is pumped into making Canada looking more attractive to new auto makers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CREATING finished leather from tanned leather, (in its wet state), is not sufficiently important a manufacturing process to warrant the final product being legally considered a new good, made in the country where it was processed rather than where it was sourced, the chairman of a special World Trade Organisation committee has advised.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ROTHMANS, Benson and Hedges Inc. Canada, has lost a court battle in Saskatchewan, where the firm had argued the Canadian province’s Tobacco Control Act contravened the right to freedom of expression enshrined in Canada’s Constitution and that it violated federal anti-smoking legislation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN publishers are licking their wounds after a summer ill spent with paperwork, lawyers fees and frustration because of the crash of Jack Stoddart’s General Publishing Co. Ltd. and its book distribution arm, General Distribution Services Ltd. (GDS), which filed for voluntary bankruptcy last month at an Ontario court.…