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BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHEFS know that to get the best out of a steak – it needs to be whacked with a hammer to tenderise it, making it more likely to soak up marinades and more delicate to the palate. Detectives know that softening up suspects with a good-cop, bad-cop routine will make them more pliant to questioning The same applies to treating cancer tumours: if you knock them around a bit first, they are less able to resist drugs designed – ultimately – to wipe them out.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GROUNDBREAKING business plan of chemical leasing, designed to stop manufacturers over-purchasing potentially dangerous substances, is being promoted in developing and emerging market countries by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). It is working with the Austrian government to introduce the system, which leaves suppliers owning their chemicals, leasing them as a service, rather than selling them as goods.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

DUTCH coatings giant Akzo Nobel NV has taken over Canadian paintmaker Sico Inc. for approximately CDN$284 million.

Akzo based in Arnhem, the Netherlands, will acquire all of Sico’s outstanding common shares at a cash price of CDN$20 per share and will also offer to buy Sico’s class B preferred shares for CDN$3.8 million in total.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GROUNDBREAKING business plan of chemical leasing, designed to stop manufacturers over-purchasing potentially dangerous substances, is being promoted in developing and emerging market countries by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). It is working with the Austrian government to introduce the system, which leaves suppliers owning their chemicals, leasing them as a service, rather than selling them as goods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN’S status as a low tax jurisdiction in the European Union (EU) has been reconfirmed in the latest comparative study of developed industrialised countries by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). For instance, looking at income tax and national insurance burdens for single people without children, Britain is taxed at 33.5% on average, compared with an old 15-member EU average of 42.1%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTRODUCTION

THE WORLD’S multilateral food trading system today stands at a crossroads: faced with the suspension of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round, it can either retreat to protectionism, leavened by a series of competitive bilateral trade deals, or it can grasp the nettle of liberal free trade, slash subsidies and tariffs, and then watch the economic rewards roll in.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INTRODUCTION

THE WORLD’S multilateral food trading system today stands at a crossroads: faced with the suspension of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round, it can either retreat to protectionism, leavened by a series of competitive bilateral trade deals, or it can grasp the nettle of liberal free trade, slash subsidies and tariffs, and then watch the economic rewards roll in.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NORTH American Free Trade Area panel has ordered the United States department of commerce (DoC) to review anti-dumping duties imposed on US imports of oil country tubular goods from Mexican producer Hysla SA de CV. The panel found potential errors in calculations underpinning the 21.7% duty, imposed in 1996.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NORTH America’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), helped by the US, Canada and Mexico governments has released a detailed report claiming that removing lead from petrol has reduced lead levels in children’s blood in all three countries.*

http://www.cec.org/files/pdf/POLLUTANTS/CEH-Indicators-fin_en.pdf…

BY WESLEY GIBBINGS, in Port of Spain, Trinidad

WITH its multiple small jurisdictions, offshore tax havens and proximity to both drug producing countries in Latin America and the United States, the Caribbean has always been a focus of global anti-money laundering efforts.…