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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation disputes panel has branded unfair and illegal a European Union planned new banana import regime with a single tariff of Euro 230 per tonne for Latin American imports, exempting African, Caribbean and Pacific suppliers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten
A CARIBBEAN brewery claiming to manufacture the world’s only beer made from desalinated seawater will close, following a decision by its owners Antillean Brewery, which is 56% controlled by Heineken. Brewing a range of Amstel beers on the Netherlands Antilles island of Curaçao, the closure is likely to cost 55 employees their jobs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition of sole control of Netherlands-based EU food ingredient business IMCD Group by global financial services group ABN AMRO.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUGAR exporting countries from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries have agreed at a meeting in Kenya to continue “a relentless fight” against planned European Union sugar reforms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DUTCH cigarette wholesale trader hit by an illegal diversion of cargo involving corrupt customs officers should pay Euro 1 million customs debts, the European Court of Justice’s Court of First Instance has ruled. It said Ricosmos, of the Netherlands, then part of the Kamstra Shipstores group, was liable, despite not being involved in the fraud.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL team of scientists will cooperate for the next five years in a Euro 7 million research project developing odour traps and effective repellents to keep malarial mosquitoes away from potential human hosts. This Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative will unite US, Dutch, Tanzania and Gambia researchers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN tobacco industry is resisting handing over detailed cigarette ingredients data to national European Union (EU) governments, a European Commission report has claimed, despite it being their legal duty under the EU tobacco products directive. Highlighting “some difficulties associated to the submission of ingredient information…by the industry”, the Commission said data has so far only been sent to Brussels by 13 out of the 25 EU member states.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
FIGHTING money laundering is about getting your hands dirty. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) may pronounce global standards that it would like jurisdictions to follow, but all governments need help, and often regional bodies are better placed to do the detailed work than more remote global organisations.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A LINK between under-nourishment and mental illness has been confirmed after scientists found that children born during China’s 1959-61 famine were twice as likely to develop schizophrenia. It afflicts roughly 1% of the global population and tends to run in families but researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University noted that the percentage of children who were babies during the famine and developed schizophrenia rose to 2.2%.…

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.…