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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN IRISH company’s plan to help 1,600 meat and dairy producers in Latin America adopt technology capturing and disposing of methane has been supported by a US$10 million loan from the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC). AgCert International plc actually wants to spend US$150 million on rolling out these systems over the next three years, especially in Brazil and Mexico.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEXICO has appealed against a refusal by a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel to order the United States to immediately scrap anti-dumping duties on Mexican oil country tubular goods (OCTG). It wants a WTO appellate body to make such a decision, even though the panel did order the US government to review the duties because of errors made in their imposition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
*France’s Sederma isolated enzymes from deep-sea bacteria Thermus thermophilus for commercial skin products protecting against UV and heat exposure;

*American researchers NOAA report Gulf of Mexico deep-sea sponge deep Forcepia is being clinically investigated for anti-cancer medicines;

*A glycoprotein protecting Antarctic fish species against cold is being developed for surgery, plant nursery and fish farming uses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THAT criminals abuse the insurance industry is nothing new for a sector routinely screening claims for hints of fraud. However, its managers have proved far less alert to the risk of it being exploited by money launderers and terrorist financers, a new detailed report has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is pumping US$35 million over 10 years into leading Mexico low-end retailer Coppel, to support expansion plans. Coppel wants to consolidate its position as a national Mexican chain, enhance its credit business, and strengthen corporate governance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has been told by a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel to review its re-imposition of anti-dumping duties on Mexican oil country tubular goods. Mexico had claimed that the USA erred in concluding during a 2000-2001 sunset review that without the duties, originally imposed in 1995, Mexican exporters would dump cut-priced cheap oil country tubular goods on the US market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL assessment of commodity markets until 2014 is predicting that increased production worldwide will depress the price of traded meat. Written by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), this ‘Agricultural Outlook’ predicts slow but steady falls in beef prices, because of the gradual improvement in US production, and poultry, following “continued investment in integrated poultry systems, particularly in developing countries”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GUATEMALA government has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over complaints about 25.87% anti-dumping duties imposed by Mexico on imports of certain Guatemalan steel pipes and tubes. The small central American republic has logged 18 claims alleging its larger neighbour broke WTO rules when imposing the duties.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
CHINA’S presence at the meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Paris in February was a powerful reminder of how the world’s great economic, trade and regulatory institutions are changing, with consequences that few people probably fully grasp today.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the May 31 deadline looms for World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries to make formal offers to liberalise their service industries, the Comité Européen des Assurances (CEA) has called on Brazil, India and China to be as generous as they can.…