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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) has again censured the European Union (EU) for breaching global trading rules on its long running banana dispute with the USA and Latin America. An appellate panel of the WTO disputes settlement body found the EU’s discriminatory regime favouring imports of Caribbean and African bananas over central and south American fruit illegally harms American fruit companies.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD, in Caracas; MARVIN HOKSTAM, in Paramaribo, JAMES FULLER, in Port of Spain

IT may seem like a good thing for fuel retailers to be based in country that is sitting on a bounty of fuel reserves. But that is not necessarily the case, as many Latin American and Caribbean retailers can testify.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

A LITTLE noticed event took place in Brussels last month when the European Union (EU) Court of Auditors awarded the president of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Pöttering its annual Gold Medal, citing "the co-operation between the two institutions in safeguarding the interests of the European taxpayers."…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, DOMINIQUE PATTON and LUCY JONES

The growth in outsourcing within the clothing and textile sector worldwide has highlighted a key issue, and that is the relative merits of running an integrated company that handles basic production and design, or relying on a string of specialist suppliers to deliver the goods, from fibre supplies, to textile manufacture, design, clothing assembly and retail.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CONTROLLED opening of Arctic fisheries made more accessible because of the steady retreat of polar ice through climate change has been called for in a European Commission policy paper.

It wants "a regulatory framework for [those] Arctic high seas not yet covered by an international conservation and management regime before new fishing opportunities arise," saying no fisheries should be opened for any country until such controls are established.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) has again censured the European Union (EU) for breaching global trading rules on its long running banana dispute with the USA and Latin America. An appellate panel of the WTO disputes settlement body found the EU’s discriminatory regime favouring imports of Caribbean and African bananas over central and south American fruit illegally harms American fruit companies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank making a very tangible contribution to the growth in world trade at a time of global recession by lending US$300 million to help expand the Panama Canal. This 20-year financing will support a US$5.25 billion project to double the canal’s capacity to more than 600 million Panama Canal tons, allowing it to handle large post-Panamax container ships that have become the new industry standard.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the takeover of Dutch baggage handling service and systems company Vanderlande Industries BV by fellow Netherlands company SHV Holdings NV, a diverse group with heavy equipment, energy and other interests. Brussels concluded after an inquiry that the deal would not pose competition problems in the European groundhandling sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has struck down a European Commission decision blocking a Netherlands law effectively insisting diesel-powered vehicles registered in that country be fitted with filters reducing particulate matter emissions. Brussels claimed this was not a "proportionate" way of reducing pollution.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have approved import quota and tariff levels for cane sugar shipped from India until 2009. The deal has been written into the EU’s sugar agreement with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states.

http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/08/st14/st14962.en08.pdf

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