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THE RECENTLY agreed free trade agreement between Canada and the European Union (EU) could spark a major increase in European apparel exports to Canada competitors, Bob Kirke, executive director of the Canadian Apparel Federation, has told just-style. “It could have a significant impact,” he said.…

The free trade agreement struck between the EU and Canada will remove a requirement that Canadian spirits companies only import bulk spirits from the EU for blending with domestic spirits. The Canadian government yesterday (Wednesday) announced “the removal of the federal blending requirement for imported distilled spirits,” would be part of the agreement, announced October 18.…

THE FREE trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and Canada concluded last week (CETA) will open the Canadian market for airport groundhandling services to European providers, according to an EU source participating in the negotiations.

“We have not only regained a level-playing field with Canada’s NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement] partners, but we have also been able to exceed that in some areas, such as groundhandling services in airports,” the official explained to Jane’s Airport Review at a background briefing in Brussels.…

THE SCALE of the European Union (EU) market access secured for Canadian meat exporters within the free trade agreement struck between the EU and Canada has been made clear by the the Canadian government. It yesterday (Wednesday) revealed details of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), announced October 18.…

EUROPEAN AND Canadian meat traders are looking to boost overseas sales after today’s formal announcement of the widely anticipated Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

Speaking in Brussels, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said: “We were able to strike a very good balance between our offensive and defensive interests [in agriculture],” while noting that this area was particularly sensitive during the negotiations.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) regulators are tangling with the difficulty of tightening rules-of-origin for meat products, given the potentially significant number of manufacturing stages required. The European Commission and European Parliament have been considering their response to the horse meat labelling scandal.…

THE INSURANCE risks involved in oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) are rising in line with growing industry complexity and the move into deeper, remoter and more environmentally sensitive environments.

This is placing ever greater demands on the need to identify, quantify and insure against risk, particularly when the financial and reputational repercussions of getting it wrong are escalating too.…

Calls to streamline and coordinate the myriad initiatives taken to prevent another factory fire or collapse in Bangladesh dominated a two-hour debate on the aftermath of the Rana Plaza disaster in April held by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development last month (June  26-7).…

A PUSH by the G8 group of the world’s seven most industrialised nations plus Russia to improve extractive industry transparency and openness can help industrial minerals companies manage the payments they make in developing counties, as they will only have to follow one set of rules, according to Rio Tinto chief executive Sam Walsh.…

THE CANADIAN industrial minerals sector has told its government how it wants upcoming extractive industry transparency rules to be written. Its advice follows a promise by the country’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper to table legislation fighting mining industry corruption, made at the recent G8 summit in Northern Ireland.…