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BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union has moved at the last minute to exploit this month’s (Sep 10-13) World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun to press claims that the geographical names of traditionally made European drinks should not be exploited by manufacturers from different areas or countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
OLAF, the European Union’s anti-fraud office, has agreed to electronically transmit intelligence and statistical data on cigarette smuggling to the World Customs Organisation (WCO). A technical option is to be created within OLAF’s Anti-Fraud Information System and Ciginfo databanks allowing their data to be sent to the WCO Customs Enforcement Network system (CEN).…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
HINDUSTAN Lever has been trying to persuade Indian parents to buy Multiaction Surf, by offering the means to avoid washing their children’s clothes altogether – a foreign school scholarship. The slightly ironic promotional scheme ‘Colour Your Future’ asks children to enter a competition by painting a picture based on what they wants to achieve in adulthood; paintings have to be titled: “I want to be…” Hindustan Lever has been offering fixed deposits of between INDRupees 100,000 (US$2,173) and 500,000 (US$10,863) for zonal and national winners, respectively.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EASTERN and southern Europe countries slated to join the European Union (EU) on May 1, 2004, have worked small wonders in recent years to set up anti-money laundering regimes, not necessarily because they believe this is good in itself but partly at least because EU entry might not be possible otherwise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STATES Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC) – the institution’s decision-making body – has debated recognising an International Criminal Bar as an official advisory body for maintaining a list of available defence counsel. This global bar was established at a Montreal conference in June 2002 and has since been adopting its own constitution and organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT has been struck between the European Commission and China over Chinese participation in the European Union’s GALILEO global positioning satellite communications project. Assuming it is ratified, the deal will create co-operation on satellite navigation and related telecoms service development.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEXICO has asked the WTO to settle a row with the USA over claims that Washington’s reimposition of anti-dumping duties on Mexican oil country tubular goods broke global trading regulations. Mexico claims Washington erred during a 2001 sunset review, alleging it “misapplied a ‘would be likely to lead’ standard,” when assessing if scrapping the tariffs might encourage cut-priced Mexican pipeline tube imports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COUNTERFEITING is considered by many to be a victimless crime, the only losses being suffered by large trademark holders who have plenty of money anyway. The reality, of course, is quite different. Keith Nuthall reviews the latest international developments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey has concluded girls use tobacco almost as much as boys, especially non-cigarette products such as spit-tobacco, bidis, and water pipes. The study of around one million adolescents in 150 countries found no gender difference amongst teenagers (aged 13-15) in 61 of 120 sites surveyed for cigarettes and 82 of 117 for other products.…