Search Results for: Mexico

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE APPELLATE body of the World Trade Organisation has ruled that Mexico’s imposition of anti-dumping duties on imports of high fructose corn syrup from the US breaks world trade rules and so should be amended or scrapped. The panel found that Mexico had “inadequately considered the impact of dumped imports on the (Mexican corn syrup) industry.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL crimes are in many ways the most damaging of offences, given that they can harm millions of people, whether through damaging the ozone layer, increasing pollution levels or damaging biodiversity. The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, (UNICRI), has published a study on this modern scourge.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL crimes are in many ways the most damaging of offences, given that they can harm millions of people, whether through damaging the ozone layer, increasing pollution levels or damaging biodiversity. They are also hard to pinpoint and investigate and it is for these reasons that the Milan-based United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, (UNICRI), has published a study on this modern scourge.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States has been told it should scrap or amend safeguard restrictions on the amount of combed cotton yarn that can be imported from Pakistan, by the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation’s disputes settlement procedures.

Washington had contested an earlier judgement that it had broken WTO rules in the way that it imposed the trade barrier, but key elements of its case were rejected by the appeals body.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE APPELLATE body of the WTO has ruled that Mexico’s imposition of anti-dumping duties on imports of high fructose corn syrup from the US breaks world trade rules and so should be amended or scrapped.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
MEXICO-based Grupo Modelo is launching its flagship brand Corona in India this year, with its international market coordinator for the Asia-Pacific region claiming that the beer will be as successful as it has been in China. Linares Fernando told the Indian press that annual Chinese sales are approaching one million cases.…

Keith Nuthall
MEXICO, Bolivia and Malta have joined the string of World Trade Organisation member governments which have announced how they will implement the third stage of liberalisation commitments under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a planned Spanish publishing joint venture between Germany’s Bertelsmann and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore SpA, of Italy, combining all the book publishing divisions and imprints in Spain and Latin America of Random House and Mondadori.…

Keith Nuthall
A DEAL has been stuck at the World Trade Organisation’s goods council, which will extend the time that eight developing countries can erect trade barriers to restrict the import of components for automobile manufacturing, to promote local engineering companies.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AFTER Mexican plantation workers walked off tobacco fields in Ontario, Canada, to protest about the deplorable working conditions, the Canadian section of the United Farm Workers of America has called for the establishment national labour standards to protect them.…