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ACP EU SUGAR REFORM MEETING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUGAR exporting countries from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries have agreed at a meeting in Kenya to continue “a relentless fight” against planned European Union sugar reforms.…
ASIA/PACIFIC GROUP ON MONEY LAUNDERING
BY MATTHEW BRACE
FIGHTING money laundering is about getting your hands dirty. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) may pronounce global standards that it would like jurisdictions to follow, but all governments need help, and often regional bodies are better placed to do the detailed work than more remote global organisations.…
HONDURAS V DOMINICANS DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation dispute between Honduras and the Dominican Republic over the Caribbean island state’s cigarette import red tape and taxes has been formally solved. Both sides agreed its system should be liberalised by May 2007, dispensing with an arbitrator.…
HONDURAS V DOMINICANS DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LONG-RUNNING dispute at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) between Honduras and the Dominican Republic over the Caribbean island state’s cigarette import red tape and taxes appears to have been solved, with both sides agreeing to suspend ongoing arbitration.…
TRINIDAD FUND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CARIBBEAN’S leading oil and gas producer Trinidad & Tobago says that an oil fund facility established for neighbouring small states is growing at US$4.1 million monthly. The money is transferred from the country’s oil revenues and is earmarked to help its Caribbean customers fight poverty while petroleum prices remain high.…
WTO SUGAR APPEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL sugar industry will scrutinise the text of an appeal verdict issued yesterday (28-4) by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), confirming an earlier decision that European Union’s (EU) existing sugar subsidies break WTO rules. The European Commission has already accepted the decision, which is important, because it will on June 22 publish detailed reforms and EU agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has responded: “I will take account of this verdict when I finalise the reform proposals”.…
ILO FORCED LABOUR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AT least 12.3 million people are trapped in forced labour around the world, says the International Labour Organisation (ILO), with the overwhelming majority being in Asia. A new report said 9.5 million forced labourers were in Asia; 1.3 million in Latin America and the Caribbean; 660,000 in sub-Saharan Africa; 260,000 in the Middle East and North Africa; 360,000 in industrialised countries; and 210,000 in ‘transition’ countries, for instance in eastern Europe.…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP: WORLD BANK INDICATORS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank’s latest global development indicators show sub-Saharan Africa as the world’s laggard regarding the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. For instance, east Asia/Pacific; eastern Europe/central Asia; Latin America/Caribbean; and the Middle East/north Africa regions have moved solidly towards reducing child mortality by two-thirds in 2015.…
CENTRAL AMERICA WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ECUADOR, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala have launched disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation opposing planned European Union duties on their banana exports from 2006, when current quotas are scrapped. Caribbean producers will pay lower tariffs.…
ECJ BANANA QUOTAS CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice is expected to reject a claim by nine Italian and one British banana importers that the European Commission should have allowed them to use licences to import African, Caribbean, Pacific bananas to sell bananas from other countries.…