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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice is expected to reject a claim by nine Italian and one British banana importers that the European Commission should have allowed them to use licences to import African, Caribbean, Pacific bananas to sell bananas from other countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ECUADOR, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala have launched disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation opposing planned European Union duties on their banana exports from 2006, when current quotas are scrapped. Caribbean producers will pay lower tariffs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ECUADOR, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala have launched disputes proceedings at the WTO opposing the planned level of EU duties on their banana exports from 2006, when the current quota system is scrapped. Caribbean producers will pay lower tariffs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank’s latest global development indicators show sub-Saharan Africa as the world’s laggard regarding the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. For instance, east Asia/Pacific; eastern Europe/central Asia; Latin America/Caribbean; and the Middle East/north Africa regions have moved solidly towards reducing child mortality by two-thirds in 2015.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GERMAN and Italian subsidiaries of US fruit giant Dole, (Dole Fresh Fruit Europe and Comafrica SpA) have lost European Court of Justice bids to secure damage against the European Commission over its assistance to Caribbean banana producers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PRESIDENT George W Bush’s re-election last November has pretty well ruled out any change in the US ban on Cuban cigars for the next four years – if anything, things are likely to get tougher. One of the last things the previous Bush administration did last October was to actually tighten the import ban by barring Americans travelling to Cuba from bringing back up to US$100 dollars worth of Cuban cigars.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has dealt a blow to the hopes of international lawyers wanting to launch legal actions by exploiting World Trade Organisation (WTO) rulings. It has ruled that WTO decisions and agreements are essentially diplomatic, with have no direct effect on European Union (EU) law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has thrown out a bid by Dutch livestock producers for restrictions to be imposed on national health authorities over their tactics to fight foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks. The plaintiffs had claimed that European Union (EU) directive 85/511 imposed limits on the “power to order the slaughter of animals belonging to a holding adjacent to or within a specific radius of a holding containing infected animals”.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
SINGAPORE’S economy is rejuvenating after the horrors of early 2004 when the threat of terrorism (both internationally and closer to home in South East Asia), and then the SARS virus hit the city state hard, shrinking demand for construction and hence the amount of money to be made by the coatings sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN consortium claims to have successfully developed a mobile and self-erecting crane, “to create a single crane that can do the work of five”. The six participating Belgian, German, Italian and Dutch companies – linked under the banner of European research network Eureka – say the crane “features an anti-sway device which makes it safer as well as more efficient”.…