Search Results for: Mexico

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representative report on trade barriers criticises Mexico’s 20% tax on beverages and syrups made with sweeteners other than cane sugar as a “violation” of world trade law, discriminating against US products including high fructose corn-syrup.…

BY LIZ HALL
A PROFUSION of family-run businesses, corrupt and under-resourced authorities and low wages has traditionally meant much commercial crime goes undetected in Latin America. But the tide is turning, with more and more companies unwilling to turn a blind eye to fraud, bribery and counterfeit goods production.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE FOOD and Drug Administration (FDA), of the USA, has issued a medical alert against eating cheese made from raw milk from Mexico, Nicaragua or Honduras, warning it can cause tuberculosis. The bacteria mycobacterium bovis can contaminate this cheese, causing one fatal and several non-fatal cases of TB in the New York region from 2001-2004, concluded the FDA.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PRESIDENT George W Bush’s re-election last November has pretty well ruled out any change in the US ban on Cuban cigars for the next four years – if anything, things are likely to get tougher. One of the last things the previous Bush administration did last October was to actually tighten the import ban by barring Americans travelling to Cuba from bringing back up to US$100 dollars worth of Cuban cigars.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has blocked a bid by Mexico’s Cervecería Modelo’s to secure European Union (EU) trademark protection for its beer Negra Modelo. This has been opposed by Portugal supermarket group Modelo Continente Hipermercados, which secured its own EU rights to the trademark ‘Modelo’ in 1995, for goods including “syrups, beers, refreshing drinks and non-alcoholic beverages”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has blocked a bid by Mexico’s Cervecería Modelo’s to secure European Union (EU) trademark protection for its beer Negra Modelo. This has been opposed by Portugal supermarket group Modelo Continente Hipermercados, which secured its own EU rights to the trademark ‘Modelo’ in 1995, for goods including “syrups, beers, refreshing drinks and non-alcoholic beverages”.…

BY LIZ HALL
SPAIN’S paint and coating industry has every right to be self-congratulatory at present: the widespread investment and business improvements of recent years have paid off with the sector securing a well-earned place alongside its counterparts elsewhere in the developed world.…

BY TAMARA VANTROYEN, in Hong Kong

IT is not just a rumour anymore: China is officially upgrading its water quality, a move welcome to drinks manufacturers that rely on and control costs through guaranteed clean water supplies. China launched new drinking water standards in June, raising the number of forbidden water pollutants from 35 to 101.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MEXICAN government has lost an appeal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against a disputes panel ruling that it should review its 10.18% anti-dumping duties levied on American rice because it had used faulty procedures assessing whether the US had been dumping long grain rice.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Japan have joined Mexico in demanding formal talks at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over American anti-dumping duty procedures protecting its steel industry. Mexico is challenging US tariffs on its exports of stainless steel sheet and strip in coils, alleging American trade officials erred when calculating dumping margins used to set duty levels.…