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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DETAILED European Commission report has listed trade barriers impeding European Union (EU) automobile, parts and components sales imposed to protect export market industries from the recession. Brussels fears that while these restrictions were designed to help vulnerable businesses survive the recession, they could cause long-term damage to Europe’s auto manufacturers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INITIATIVE boosting the ability of Latin American and Caribbean countries to prevent precursor chemicals from being diverted from legitimate uses to illegal narcotic production has been launched. The UN Office in Drugs and Crime and European Commission’s three-year PRELAC project will cover: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

The Venezuelan cigarette market experienced an overall decline in 2008 and the first half of 2009. In 2008, 11.95 billion sticks were sold, an 8.6% drop from the 13.07 billion sticks sold in 2007, according to the United Nations Statistics Division.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NORTH American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) countries the USA, Canada and Mexico have agreed a detailed communiqué on future cooperation in climate change. This includes working together in reducing oil and gas industry greenhouse gas emissions, (notably cutting flaring), developing "comparable" methods on greenhouse gas reporting and compatible emissions trading systems.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A NEW crisis over the presence of genetically modified (GM) ingredients in food and livestock feed has once more focused attention on the European Union’s (EU’s) controversial GM policies. It has especially raised the spectre of job losses, farm bankruptcies and higher consumer prices if a relaxation of the current de facto zero tolerance restriction applying to unauthorised GM products is not agreed soon.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DETAILED assessment of the Mexican oil and gas industry from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has recommended some major structural reforms. The OECD has called for Mexican petrol price controls to bring a "closer alignment between domestic and international gasoline prices", the abolition of other energy subsidies and the introduction of an energy excise tax.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DYING companies may find commercially useful new information revealed about the molecular structure of cotton by the USA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS). It and collaborators the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA, and the Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, has provided new information about hydrogen bonds that connect the building blocks of cellulose, the main molecule in cotton fibres and most other plant cell walls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MAJOR Latin American oil and gas producer Mexico has announced a planned unilateral reduction in its greenhouse gas emissions of 50 million tonnes annually. In a detailed plan, its government said it would specifically strive to reduce emissions from Mexico’s oil and gas industry, boost automobile energy efficiency standards and fund solar water heaters, among other initiatives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WIDE range of non-chemical methods of fighting malaria will be tested by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and 40 countries in Africa, the eastern Mediterranean and central Asia. These tactics include eliminating potential mosquito breeding sites; securing homes with mesh screens; growing mosquito-repellent trees; and breeding fish that eat mosquito larvae.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

THE OUTBREAK of swine flu has not been kind to Mexico’s textile industry, which has suffered extensive losses this week due to the government mandated five-day shutdown of all factories, and a significant drop in retail sales. All textile and garment production throughout the entire country was halted between May 1 and 5 during the obligatory shuttering of all non-essential businesses and operations, although some companies were able to continue to deliver previously produced items.…