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BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States’ Distilled Spirits Council has congratulated the US Congress for approving the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) for opening central American markets to USA spirit exports. Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua) and the Dominican Republic will immediately abolish tariffs on US-produced whiskey and gin.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
IT may never equal the four-fold rise in the price of a barrel of crude oil that took place between 1973 and 1974, but this year’s hike to more than US$60 a barrel has given all those industries dependent on the stability of fuel prices a severe shock, and the aviation industry is one of those reeling from the increases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) tobacco-advertising ban may have come into force on July 31, but it yet to be implemented in nine out of the 25 EU member states, the European Commission has admitted. Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Greece, Slovenia, Cyprus and Hungary have not notified Brussels with corresponding national prohibitions.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IN both the Austrian and Swiss paint industries the European Union’s (EU) chemicals policy, and in particular next year’s introduction of the regulatory framework known as REACH, hang like a grim cloud over the near to mid term future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) tobacco-advertising ban came into force on Sunday (July 31), prohibiting adverts in most print publications, radio and the Internet, although some countries – notably Germany – have not implemented the law. The 2003 tobacco-advertising directive would be, claimed EU health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou “one of the most effective ways of reducing smoking”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States’ Distilled Spirits Council has congratulated the US Congress for approving the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) for opening central American markets to USA spirit exports. Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua) and the Dominican Republic will immediately abolish tariffs on US-produced whiskey and gin.…

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.…

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.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is pressing ahead with legal action against Sweden and the Czech Republic over their failure to comply with the European Union’s (EU) insurance winding-up directive, as its officials consider whether Britain has now finally complied with its terms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to give the growing non-life insurance sector in Armenia a shot in the arm by acquiring a 35 per cent stake in the country’s Cascade Insurance and Reinsurance Company (CIRCO).…