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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CANADIAN-owned Greek mining company will have to pay EUR15.3 million, plus interest, to the Greek government, after the European Commission decided it had been originally privatised on the cheap. Brussels has ruled that Ellinikos Xrysos paid too little when it bought gold, copper, zinc, lead and silver mines in the Cassandra area, Chalkidiki region, northern Greece.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE RELATIONSHIP between levels of duty and the demand for tobacco products on which these taxes are levied is at one level simple, and another complex. Obviously, if taxes were so punitive, most smokers simply could not afford a cigarette, then it would have an impact on demand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INVESTIGATORS from the European Commission and the European Union’s (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF should report on May 11 about whether American biodiesel exporters are illegally evading EU countervailing and anti-dumping duties on their product. A probe will examine whether US biodiesel is being illicitly routed through third countries, especially Canada and Singapore, to avoid paying the duties: between Euro EUR211.20 and EUR237/tonne for the countervailing (antisubsidy) duties and EUR23.60 and EUR208.20/tonne for the anti-dumping tax.According…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

POLICE in Montreal, Canada, have seized 2,700 photocopied textbooks and digests of textbooks that were being sold illegally to university students, arresting 13 suspects in raids on four photocopying stores. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the total value of the haul was Canadian dollars CAD540,000 (GBPounds 342,000).…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

Ontario’s main beer retailer The Beer Store has rejected claims it is partly responsible for Calgary-based Minhas Craft Brewery abandoning plans to build a new brewery in Hamilton, near Toronto. Minhas, which has a brewery in Wisconsin, USA, claimed to Canadian newspapers The Beer Store – owned by major Canadian brewers Molson Canada, Labatt and Sleeman – was slow selling its new Boxer lager.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

HAS the world found the means to drive rapid growth of distributed power generation in the rural areas? Yes, believes a group of young entrepreneurs in India who are using the rice husk-fired gasification process to operate small generation units in off-grid remote villages.…

BY EMMA JACKSON, MJ DESCHAMPS

Political sensitivities over native reserves help fuel US-Canada tobacco smuggling

Illicit tobacco manufacturing on Mohawk territory that spans the US-Canada border between Montreal and Toronto is helping fuel smuggling, claims the Canadian police. Native authorities call on tobacco consumers to avoid contraband tobacco, because it strengthens organised crime.…

BY WANG FANGQING, ALAN OSBORN

Tainted tobacco leaves generate China push to restore polluted soil

A new report has warned that Chinese tobacco plants are sucking up heavy metals from contaminated soils. The Chinese tobacco industry is challenging the findings, and analysts predict sales will not be weakened.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

CANADA and India-based businessman Baljit Chadha, president of international trade and marketing firm Balcorp Ltd., is standing behind his decision to invest in the controversial underground Jeffrey Mine asbestos expansion project according to his senior spokesman Guy Versailles.…

BY DANIEL PRUZIN

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Q: How would you rate the results of the COP-4 meeting? Did the WHO achieve the goals it set out for the meeting? And who came out "better" from the results – the WHO or the tobacco industry?…