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BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, MONICA DOBIE AND PHILIP FINE

IF there is one striking characteristic about Washington’s Bush Administration, it must be its almost unprecedented ability to infuriate the entire world with its unilateralism, especially its self-serving trade policies.

For years, the US government has actually played Mary Poppins on food production subsidies, claiming that its handouts do not encourage farmers to overproduce when prices are low.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, and ALAN OSBORN, in London
CANADIAN publishers may have to pay the insolvent General Publishing up front to have their books moved from its warehouse floor, even though many publishers have not received payment from General since last autumn.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE ONTARIO Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers’ Marketing Board has announced the Tillsonburg auction warehouse will close and that the 2001 tobacco crop and future crops, will be marketed exclusively through the nearby Delhi auction exchange.

The board said the reduction in crop size, due to anti-smoking policies and excessive taxation by both Canadian federal and provincial governments, made it uneconomical to operate both the Delhi and Tillsonburg exchanges.…

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
THE CANADIAN Booksellers Association (CBA) has called on Canada’s federal government to launch review of Amazon.com Inc’s alleged plans to establish a Canadian online site, which the CBA claims would violate federal foreign investment rules. Amazon.com has not yet confirmed it will establish a Canadian arm, but the bookselling industry predicts a separate Canada site will be introduced on June 25.…

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
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 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, in Montreal
General Motors of Canada has headed reports of sharp increases in national sales for the month of May for new vehicles. GM unveiled a whopping 21 per cent year-on-year increase from May 2001, reporting that it sold more trucks in Canada last month than in any other May in history.…