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BY MARK ROWE
THAI canneries are looking to invest in re-exporting north American wild salmon as a means of boosting revenue. Companies are planning to promote exports of wild salmon, which have been processed in Thailand in favour of farmed salmon, usually supplied from Norway, Chile and Scotland.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMAZON has launched its dedicated Canadian site that will allow customers to order books in local currency and have them shipped from a warehouse in Canada, lowering the price of merchandise significantly.

The online book giant has outfoxed Canadian foreign ownership regulations, by using Assured Logistics, an arm of Canada Post the national postal service, to ship books from large distribution centers to a warehouse in Ontario.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMAZON.COM and Indigo Books & Music Inc. have had a war of words following the recent launch of Amazon.ca, the Canadian arm of the company, and the announcement by the Canadian federal government that it is investigating whether the operation is legal.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
1902-1912

British American Tobacco was created on September 29th 1902 as a joint venture between Imperial Tobacco Company of the UK and the American Tobacco Company of the US following a fierce trade war. The parent companies agreed not to trade in each other’s domestic territory and to assign trademarks, export businesses and overseas subsidiaries to the joint venture.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE PRODUCTION of confectionary ingredients sugar and milk is more subsidised in rich developed countries than almost any other foodstuff, says a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. It says that handouts accounted in 2001 for more than half of farm receipts for these commodities amongst its member countries, which include the EU, the US, Norway and Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
DaimlerChrysler Canada has announced it will close its trim plant in Ajax, Ontario, in December, 2003, as part of the company’s cost saving strategy. The closure will eliminate 650 jobs, adding to the thousands of jobs wiped out over the past 18 months at its light vehicle and heavy truck manufacturing plants.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN oil companies have criticised a recently passed bill in the US Senate that would set a floor price for Alaska gas, which could spark a trade dispute between Canada and America. Ron Brenneman, CEO of Petro Canada said: “… that represents a form of subsidy for gas from one particular source in north America.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CANADIAN consumers are to be compensated by their retailers, if errors are detected at checkout price scanners. Under a new retail code of conduct, the Scanner Price Accuracy Voluntary Code, customers will receive incorrectly scanned items for free if the price is less than CAN$10 and will receive CAN$10 off the price of more expensive items.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc. has recently won a court judgment in New York to begin seizing assets to recover US$330 million from Castor Holdings Ltd., a defunct Montreal-based holding company and real estate lender formerly headed by Wolfgang Stolzenberg, a German-Canadian businessman suspected of orchestrating one of Canada’s most colossal fraud scams.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN publishers will be forced into bankruptcy if they do not quickly get paid the money owed to them by the distribution arm of General Publishing Co. Ltd, owner of Stoddart Publishing and House of Anansi Press, according to a recent Ontario Superior Court document.…