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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has drawn a curtain over the longest running trade dispute in the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) history – approving December 2009 deals on reducing EU banana import tariffs. These had been struck with the USA, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela solving complaints the EU unfairly favoured Caribbean island banana exports with quota and tariffs.…

BY WANG FANGQING, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, MARK ROWE and PACIFICA GODDARD

THE BRICM countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Mexico) have long been regarded as sources of cheap quality fabrics and clothes, but as they grow wealthier they are increasingly being regarded as vital international export markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A JOINT initiative on reducing oilfield gas flaring, involving Mexico’s Pemex and Norway’s Statoil, has become the first Mexican project of its type to be registered under the UN’s clean development mechanism. The project will pipe currently-flared gas from the Tres Hermanos field to a processing and treatment plant then distribute it to local markets.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

IN today’s beauty-obsessed society, sometimes no price is too high for an anti-aging product that is out of this world: something that many cosmetics companies have taken to heart. Literally.

UK cosmetics company Turn Back Time has recently followed in the footsteps of other cosmetics and beauty companies, looking to aerospace technology to create innovative, anti-aging solutions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ENERGY companies offering green solutions to developing and emerging market countries could prosper from decisions made at the latest United Nations’ (UN) climate change conference, staged in Cancún, Mexico. Delegates managed to codify informal decisions made at the 2009 Copenhagen summit as formal agreements under the UN framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ADVANCE chapter of the US National Oil Spill Commission report into the Gulf of Mexico disaster has attacked safety precautions on the Deepwater Horizon rig as insufficient. The chapter said it was "no longer acceptable to rely on…right person to be looking at the right data at the right time, and… understand its significance" while undertaking other responsibilities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

COUNTRIES negotiating a plurilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) fighting fake products have announced that all remaining problems have been resolved and a final text is being drafted. This will allow the European Union (EU) and its member states, Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the USA to ratify the treaty.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

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THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the takeover by Unilever of Sara Lee’s body and laundry care businesses, on condition it sells off the US company’s Sanex brand and related business in Europe. Following an inquiry as the European Union’s (EU) lead competition authority, Brussels concluded there were particular concerns regarding Unilever’s future dominance of some EU deodorant markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has called for emerging market governments to act against rising obesity levels, lest they rival those in rich mature food markets. The Paris-based think-tank has released analysis in the medical journal The Lancet that claims obesity levels in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russia and South Africa are rising.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, KEITH NUTHALL

THE KNITWEAR sector, especially at the higher end of the market spectrum, is a prey for organised counterfeiters. Sophisticated illicit manufacturers, especially in emerging markets, create copies of established brands, that can be high enough quality to fool, but poor enough to disappoint the consumer after a few wears.…