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CARIBBEAN CRACKDOWN ON CHINA ORIGIN SCAM: OLAF REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LATEST annual report from European Union (EU) anti-fraud agency OLAF has told how an unnamed Caribbean customs authority cancelled proof of origin certificates covering more than 21 million pieces of knitted textiles (mainly jerseys, pullovers and cardigans).…
CHINA OFFICIAL CLOTHING EXPORTS FALL AFTER QUOTAS REIMPOSED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REIMPOSITION of quota limits last year on some Chinese textile products has driven official overseas sales down, according to European Commission figures. During the first quarter of 2006, China saw an overall decrease in exports to the EU of minus 12% in volume, although unit prices increased by 9%.…
EU STRIKES FISHING ACCESS DEALS WITH SÃO TOMÉ E PRINCIPE, MADAGASCAR: EU INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FISHING ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has initialled new fishing access deals with two African island nations: São Tomé e Principe, off west Africa, and Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean. The Madagascan deal will last six years from January 2007, and exclusively covers tuna.…
EU SETS ACP SUGAR EXPORT MINUMUM PRICE FOR 2005-6
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally proposed the minimum price for sugar exports from African, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP) countries to the EU, delivered July 2005 to June 2006 be Euro 52.37/100 kilograms for raw sugar and Euro 64.65 for white sugar.…
COMMONWEALTH MONEY LAUNDERING FEATURE, ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANISATIONS SERIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE is a large and growing list of regional money laundering organisations, with formal or informal links with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), so a question mark could hang over why the Commonwealth is getting involved in fighting dirty money.…
INDIA ACP EU SUGAR
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is negotiating guaranteed 2006/7 cane sugar prices for deliveries from India plus the African, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP) block of countries: probably Euro 631.90/tonne for white sugar and Euro 496.80/tonne for raw sugar.
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EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS ACP INDIA EUROPEAN COMMISSION SUGAR QUOTAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is negotiating guaranteed 2006/7 cane sugar prices for deliveries from India plus the African, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP) block of countries. In probably the last such talks before the EU sugar regime is reformed, a decision is expected May 1, and will probably be Euro 631.90/tonne for white sugar and Euro 496.80/tonne for raw sugar.…
BANANA ACP EU IMPORT QUOTAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to open a European Union duty-free tariff banana import quota of 615,000 tonnes for ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) countries for March-December 2006: five tranches of 93,630 tonnes "first come, first served", the remaining 146,850 tonnes reserved for established suppliers.…
MIGA INVESTMENT GUARANTEES OIL AND GAS SECTOR WORLD BANK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, is the international organisation companies turn to when they want to invest in a jurisdiction where their assets might not be that safe. Oil and gas companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and at December 2005, MIGA had supported 13 oil and gas projects, with guarantees totalling US$707 million, with a standard leverage of five-to-one, so investments covered are actually five times larger.…
INTERAMERICAN DRUG ABUSE CONTROL COMMISSION CICAD - REGIONAL ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANISATION FEATURE
BY ALAN OSBORN
IN line with the growing recognition in the 1980s of anti-money laundering campaigns as a weapon against terrorism and increased knowledge global drug supply routes, (implicating a number of Latin American countries), governments of the western hemisphere concluded that greater formal co-operation was necessary in fighting dirty money.…