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Colombia’s clothing export sector is eyeing Europe as a key market for diversifying its sales away from a reliance on the United States and neighbouring South American countries. Senior industry officials speaking at the major Latin America textile and apparel trade fair, Colombiatex, staged last week in Medellin, said they would pro-actively seek out European sales.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Counterfeit, mislabelled and substandard meat products have been seized in an international police operation spanning 29 countries, coordinated by Interpol and European police agency Europol. Sausages, ham, lamb, chicken and beef were seized, a Europol spokesman told globalmeatnews.com.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

GHANA is particularly vulnerable to climate change according to recent studies, putting its vital cocoa and oil palm industries under threat. The International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), based in Bogotá, Colombia, released a study in September 2011, which claims that much of Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire will be too hot for cocoa production by 2050.…

BY ANDREW ROSATI, IN CARACAS

Colombia’s textile and clothing sector has welcomed an initiative unveiled by the country’s President Juan Manuel Santos to help boost Colombian textile and apparel manufacturers through new tariffs and anti-smuggling measures.

These temporary duty increases include a new mixed tariff which includes a standard ad valorem charge, as well as a special tax in a fixed dollar rate on goods imported from foreign textile and clothing chains.…

BY ROBERT STOKES, IN MALAGA

RANDOM House is bullish about selling more English and Spanish language titles in Spain and Latin America as a result of its planned merger with Penguin Books and outright purchase of Spain’s Random House Mondadori (RHM).…

BY ROBERT STOKES, IN MALAGA

RANDOM House is bullish about selling more English and Spanish language titles in Spain and Latin America as a result of its planned merger with Penguin Books and outright purchase of Spain’s Random House Mondadori (RHM).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PRESSURE is growing on European Union (EU) ministers to give the EU’s sugar production quota system a stay of execution. MEPs on the European Parliament’s agriculture committee have called for the retention of EU sugar quotas for beet farmers until 2020, rather than follow existing plans to phase them out in 2015.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

THE SEPTEMBER 2012 announcement by utility RWE npower it would close the 2,000 megawatt (MW) coal-fired Didcot A power station in southern England has highlighted the scale and speed of large coal plant closures in Britain. European Union (EU) environmental laws are being identified as a key culprit behind this trend.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CEO of Nestlé has praised the role of international standards in managing his multi-national company, giving it a health-based legal framework within which its specialists can creatively develop new confectionery and other food products.

Speaking within an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) briefing, Paul Bulcke said: “Tastes may differ, but health requirements and minimum standards are the same the world over.…

By JONATHAN DYSON, in La Paz

Bolivia’s tobacco consumption is growing as this Andean country gets richer. Increasing government controls are not having much effect on demand. And the country’s dominant independent manufacturer is developing new brands.

DEFYING the global trend, tobacco consumption in Bolivia is increasing steadily, despite new anti-tobacco regulations and advertising restrictions that have been implemented in recent years.…