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CHATHAM HOUSE CONFERENCE
BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE IMMEDIATE challenge posed by global warming to the petroleum industry – reducing carbon dioxide while maintaining low-regulated emissions – has to be combined with care that consumers can afford resulting new technologies and fuels, a Royal Institute for International Affairs’ climate technology conference in London heard.…
US DUTY RETALIATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL leather trade is facing a fall in demand for American raw hides, skin and finished leather exports, as well as leather finished goods and components, with the European Union (EU) planning to impose heavy duties such exports from the United States.…
BLUETONGUE MEETING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL guidelines dealing with outbreaks of the livestock disease bluetongue are to be updated by the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, following its third global symposium on the subject, held in Sicily, Italy.…
UN CRIME CONVENTIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) has framed a new anti-corruption convention and its established convention against organised crime is now coming into force. Keith Nuthall examines what this will mean for businesses, banks and governments.
THE COMMERCIAL world is often doubtful about the value of international conventions fighting crime, but their texts do at least reflect a global consensus amongst concerned governments.…
CHINA - IFC INVESTMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, is making a US$15.3 million equity investment in China Life Reinsurance Company, to improve its efficiency in serving domestic Chinese customers. China Life Reinsurance Company is a spin-off from the state-owed China Re.…
NUCLEAR LIABILITY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Expert Group on Nuclear Liability (INLEX) has started work for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has tasked it with creating an effective and globally accepted set of rules on assigning responsibility to nuclear accidents, especially where they have cross-border effects.…
EU RETALIATORY DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is to impose 15 per cent duties on US cleansing tissue exports, after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) authorised EU retaliation to American protection of its steel industry, erected in breach of global trade laws.…
WTO NEGOTIATIONS PUSH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released proposals to liberalise the global cotton trade, aimed at helping to restart the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round, following September’s inconclusive summit at Cancun, Mexico. Brussels has promised to offer an end to its export subsidies for European Union cotton producers and also to push for a specific implementation timetable to be agreed during the talks for scrapping such payments worldwide.…
ITU RANKING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCANDINAVIA dominates the top rankings of a new International Telecommunication Union (ITU) global index on information and communication technology (ICT) access, with Sweden, Denmark and Iceland scoring the highest marks. The ITU says that the league table distinguishes itself from other indices by including new variables, such as education and affordability.…
ITU RANKING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCANDINAVIA dominates the top rankings of a new International Telecommunication Union (ITU) global index on information and communication technology (ICT) access, with Sweden, Denmark and Iceland scoring the highest marks. The ITU says that the league table distinguishes itself from other indices by including new variables, such as education and affordability.…