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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has highlighted countries with particularly significant counterfeiting and piracy of medicinal products. Following 290 replies from businesses, trade associations and diplomatic missions, covering 63 countries, its survey report named Egypt as a real problem zone, criticising the December 2004 approval of 850 local copies of pharmaceuticals "without generic companies having to "prove the efficiency and safety of the copy".…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

IF there are those who doubt whether the time, effort and resources invested in tracking down lost or orphaned sources of nuclear radiation is well spent, the tragic case of Alexander Litvinenko demonstrates only too clearly why this work is crucial.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has called on the Mexican government to free its national and "rapidly growing" aquaculture sector from burdensome red tape. In a new report – ‘Agricultural and Fisheries Policies in Mexico: Recent achievements, continuing the reform agenda’ – the OECD has claimed Mexico’s fish farm industry has "good prospects as it produces high quality products which are in demand in both domestic and export markets".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HONG Kong and China have been branded as the world’s serious hotspots for counterfeit clothing and accessories, in a global European Commission survey of countries where product fakes are manufactured. The Commission’s directorate general (DG) for trade gathered the information from companies, diplomatic missions and trade federations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Commission global survey into counterfeit goods has revealed concerns about Mexico being a centre for the counterfeiting of fake medicine packaging and leaflets. The study of businesses, industrial federations and diplomatic missions was told the problem is particularly rife in the large cities of Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey, along with the northern frontier zone with the United States.…

BY LIZ HALL

SIX years ago, government representatives from nine South American countries gathered in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, to sign a document of great importance to those concerned with fighting money-laundering (ML) and terrorism financing (TF).

On December 8, 2000, representatives of the governments of the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, signed the Founding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formally establishing GAFISUD, a regional body modelled on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE US Trade Representative (USTR) has allocated a storm-damage linked increase in 2006 import quotas for refined (90,719 metric tons) and speciality sugars (9,000 tons) to Mexico, and then other exporters on a first-come-first served basis.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NORTH American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel has ordered the USA’s Department of Commerce (DoC) to reassess its planned continued levying of anti-dumping duties on oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from Mexico. The dispute focuses on OCTG manufactured by Mexico’s TAMSA, which opposes the continuation of the tariffs, following a sunset review by the US government.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

A POLITICAL struggle has broken out at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers between EU olive oil importing and exporting countries over the current level import tariffs for the product. On one side is a group led by Sweden, supported by Britain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Lithuania, complaining about what they call "high market prices of olive oil in the EU and low levels of stocks".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EU has launched disputes proceedings at the WTO with Mexico over countervailing duties it levies on European Union olive oil exports. The EU says these break WTO global trading rules.

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