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BY PACIFICA GODDARD

WHILE net revenues for tobacco product sales in some key countries in South America have experienced growth in the last few years, in general the regional tobacco product market is stagnant. Producers blame increased excise rates, public health awareness, and new and more rigidly enforced regulations for the gloom.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

The International Finance Corporation, an affiliate of the World Bank specialising in the private sector, is to take a 10% equity stake in Tecnoquímicas, a Colombia-based pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution firm. IFC’s investment of US$25 million will support the expansion of the company’s operations in the Andean region and Central America.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

CHINA’S entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2002 and the recent end of quotas in the US and European markets have created gigantic changes in the textile industry worldwide, with developing markets like those in Latin America expected to suffer the most from these shifts.…

BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

BIOGRAPHY

Olga Sandoval, 29, Licensed Nurse, University Hospital (Hospital Clinico Universitario), Caracas, Venezuela

Nursing License, Central University of Venezuela (UCV). Worked for two years in the San Roman Urological Clinic and seven years at the University Hospital, including one year of intensive care training.…

By Keith Nuthall

A UNITED Nations-sponsored global initiative to encourage business schools to teach and promote social and environmentally responsible commercial practices has gathered a critical mass of support. More than 100 business schools worldwide have now signed up to the Principles for Responsible Management Initiative.…

BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

SINCE biotech oil crops were first commercialised over a decade ago, their use has experienced yearly double-digit growth worldwide, with Latin America being something of a nursery for this growth. Globally, the area of biotech crops grew by 13%, or by 12 million hectares, in 2006, to reach 102 million hectares, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA).…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas; ALAN OSBORN, in London; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut; RACHEL JONES, in Caracas; MARK ROWE; and KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round being slow to proceed since its 2001 launch – and only this year approaching something resembling and end game – free traders wanting to encourage global commerce have looked to bilateral and regional trade deals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHINA has been baldly accused of hosting much of the world’s booming counterfeit auto parts production. A detailed report by the planet’s largest think tank – the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – said: "China has been repeatedly identified as the principal source of counterfeit activity in the automotive sector, involving both trademark and design infringements.…

BY SUZANNE KOELEGA

AMIDST country-wide political, health and economical reforms, Colombia’s largest airport, El Dorado International Airport, has embarked on a major reconstruction project. Construction has started and should be completed by 2011.

Colombian civil aviation authorities on September 20, 2007, gave the green light for the US$640 million project.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Commission is attempting to find a solution to its long-standing row with Latin American countries over banana exports by rolling the dispute over into the multilateral World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round. These talks restart in earnest September 3, and Commission agriculture spokesman Johan Reyniers said today (Monday) that the Commission was negotiating with Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Peru and Brazil to secure a deal.…