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Keith Nuthall
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation have agreed to embark on two-phase talks to meet the 2003 deadline for completing negotiations on a multilateral registration system for geographical indications of wines and spirits.

The WTO’s TRIPS (trade related aspects of intellectual property rights) council has broadly agreed that a single draft document should be written by early next year, even if this included alternative options.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE REVIEW of the implementation of the second phase of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing has become mired in disagreement, with developing country exporters and developed importers unable to agree a scheduled report, which would settle the issue.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN Tobacco growers are still waiting for their country’s cigarette companies, such as Imperial Tobacco, to stump up their share of an CAN $80 million programme, initiated by the Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers Marketing Board, to retrofit kilns to destroy nitrosamine, a substance Health Canada declared toxic two years ago, by introducing indirect heat to the curing process.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s new proposals for a comprehensive policy on biotechnology wobble precariously on a political and economic tightrope. Launched in January this year with the aim of provoking serious discussion throughout 2002, this action plan faces the nutcracker pressure of a Europe about to expand rapidly to take on countries with agriculture in varying states, and an America that is striding ahead, gobbling up the world markets for genetically altered or developed crops.…

Keith Nuthall
CHINA has sought to allay fears that it is dragging its feet over the implementation of liberalisation commitments it made when it was admitted into the World Trade Organisation. It has released explanatory notes to the European Union and Canada, who have raised concerns over the opening of textile import quotas.…

Keith Nuthall
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation have agreed to embark on two-phase talks to meet the 2003 deadline for completing negotiations on a multilateral registration system for geographical indications of wines and spirits.

The WTO’s TRIPS (trade related aspects of intellectual property rights) council has broadly agreed that a single draft document should be written by early next year, even if this included alternative options.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
A PROGRAMME to strengthen commercial aviation security on a global scale, primarily through a mandatory audit of national services, has been agreed by all 187 Member States of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) at a two day High-Level, Ministerial Conference held at its headquarters in Montreal, Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
BEER drinkers in Canada can now order their own personalised bottles, with their own picture or original design appearing on the label.

The Labatt Brewing Company has begun a marketing campaign which sells a case of 12 “vanity beer” bottles for CAN$45.95 plus 13 dollars for delivery.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has admitted that it has encountered “unexpected difficulties” in setting up low duty import tariffs for wool and cotton. The EU, Argentina, Malaysia and Brazil have said at the WTO’s agriculture committee that while they “understood China’s problems,” they “were also disappointed,” that the January 1 deadline for establishing the quotas was missed.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
INTERNATIONAL airports across Canada will begin using iris scanners to speed up the security processing of passengers as early as this summer.

Toronto and Vancouver airports are expected to be the first to install the devices, in August; they would allow selected travellers to confirm their identities through a checkpoint scan within thirty seconds or less upon arrival at Canada Customs.…