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AN INCREASE in numbers of people attending this year’s annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) international convention has signalled a return of confidence to the global mineral exploration and mining industry.

After three consecutive years of steadily declining attendance, PDAC organisers were pleased to announce that more than 24,000 people from over 120 countries took part in this year’s edition, which ran from March 5-8 in downtown Toronto.…

Brazilian overseas beef meat sales are set to grow in 2017, according to projections from the Associação Brasileira das Indústrias Exportadoras de Carne (ABIEC). “Our export forecasts for 2017 are USD5.5 to USD6 billion, said Antônio Jorge Camardelli, the ABIEC president.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission should bring forward legislation to enhance due diligence for supply chains in the garment sector, the European Parliament’s development committee said yesterday (March 21). MEPs backed a report by Spanish MEP Lola Sánchez Caldentey from the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) group which asked the Commission to propose a European Union (EU) law saying a binding reporting system should generate data linking each product to its respective producers.…

PAKISTAN knitwear manufacturers and exporters say the country’s knitwear industry is passing through difficult times, with export sales becoming tougher to secure through growing input costs and a continued failure of the government to implement a much-vaunted and recently-announced bailout package.…

After a major investigation showed evidence of rotten and poor quality meats being consumed in Brazil and exported over the last two years, Brazilian meatpacking industry associations have now spoken out – accusing the police of exaggeration in its claims.

Speaking at a press conference in São Paulo, on Monday (March 20), Francisco Sergio Turra, head of the Brazilian Association of Animal Proteins (ABPA – Associação Brasileira de Proteína Animal), said that the country’s meat production standards follow international models.…

INDIA’S fast growing consumer goods company Patanjali Ayurved is launching a major international expansion initiative with plans to export products to China, Bangladesh and some African countries, just-food has been told.

“We presume [that] there is a great potential for our herbal products [in those countries], so we are intensifying our efforts to make it available at large,” a spokesperson from the Uttarakhand-based company told just-food.…

Ethiopia attracted foreign investments of USD1.2 billion in the first six months of the 2016/17 fiscal year, despite this increasingly important manufacturing base being under a state of emergency due to widespread anti-government protests. The figures come from the Ethiopian Investment Commission, which says that these financial injections investments were dominated by major Chinese companies, half of which are licensed in textile and garment manufacturing.…

China may have forced the European Union (EU) to grant additional low tariff quotas, improving Chinese poultry exporters EU market access – albeit just for food containing processed duck. A ruling released yesterday (Tuesday March 28) by a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes settlement panel has ruled that the EU had insufficiently considered China’s poultry exporting prowess when allocating these quotas in 2012.…

The consultation period for tightening e-commerce regulations for importers in China will be extended significantly for much of the country, its ministry of commerce has said. Instead, rather than new nationwide controls being introduced next January 1 (2018), they will run on a pilot basis within 15 cities, including Hangzhou, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hefei, Zhengzhou, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Dalian, Ningbo, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Fuzhou and Pingtan.…

OPERATIONS have begun at the second-largest airport terminal in Tibet, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has announced. Located at Nyingchi Mainling Airport, in south-western Tibet, the new terminal is 10,300 square metres in size and is designed to handle 750,000 passengers and 3,000 tonnes of cargo annually.…