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The Indonesian Textiles Association (API – Asosiasi Pertekstilan Indonesia) has told WTiN.com that it enthusiastically endorses the opening of negotiations between the European Union (EU) and Indonesia to forge a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) free trade deal.

The goal of the talks announced in July will be to create an agreement that goes beyond traditional agreements that focus on duty and quota abolition, to include removing non-tariff barriers through regulatory mutual recognition and harmonisation.…

ORGANIC wool can pose various challenges to producers and apparel and textile manufacturers, including added costs and more complicated logistics. But for niche markets, these products can attract customers willing to pay more for softer, chemical-free woollen goods.  

Dalena White, secretary general of the Brussels-based International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO), told Twist International: “Wool farmers have lovely stories to tell, including the heritage of their sheep, the natural pastures they graze on and the love they have for their animals and their native land.…

Europe’s automakers have lashed out at new European Union (EU) proposals designed to decarbonize the economy and encourage a shift to low- or no-emission options as being too focused on technology. They have also claimed it is and discriminatory because it only deals with road transport. …

THE UK’s vote on June 23 to quit the European Union (EU) creates deep uncertainty over the shape of future electricity industry regulations in Britain, and the UK’s regulatory relationship regarding power supplies with countries remaining in the EU.

Victory by the ‘Leave’ side in Britain’s in-out referendum enables the UK government to kick off an exit process by invoking Article 50 in the Treaty on European Union, which gives notice that member state wishes to leave.…

THE CANADIAN government has welcomed a European Commission ruling that should see the European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), negotiated in 2014, finally on its way to ratification. Brussels has agreed, after months of legal arguments, that CETA is a ‘mixed’ agreement, including trade and non-trade regulatory aspects.…

The Canadian meat industry is optimistic that healthy sales will follow after it resumes exporting beef to Taiwan following its government lifting a beef import ban on Friday, July 8. Taiwan had imposed a temporary suspension of Canadian beef imports in February 2015, after a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) had been discovered in Alberta earlier that month.…

CANADA’S beef sector has warned that labour shortages in its industry are a problem and could get worse in the coming decade.

Brady Stadnicki, policy analyst at the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) was commenting to GlobalMeatNews after a Canadian government report highlighted a chronic workforce shortage in Canada’s food production sector.…

Mirroring the increasing trend toward legalisation of marijuana for recreational and/or medicinal purposes in the USA and Canada, North American consumers are incorporating the cannabis plant and its byproducts into their diets.

Some 25 American states and the federal District of Columbia had, by this month (July) liberalised their marijuana laws following decades of prohibition.…

Regulators from Canada’s three main wine-producing provinces have agreed to remove technical restrictions preventing their winemakers from selling wine to consumers across all these jurisdictions. Until now, red tape has prevented all but the largest winemakers from Québec, Ontario and British Columbia (BC) selling their products to consumers outside their own province.…

Long before standards and guidelines on food and drink make their way into the codified statutes of national laws, many have often already gone through a rigorous, scientifically based process of scrutiny by an intergovernmental body whose membership comprises 99% of the world’s population.…