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THE PAINT mixing segment is a competitive world with companies constantly seeking a technological edge to generate additional sales. Of course, the segment is diverse – spanning the development of mixers helping paint and coating companies make their products, and aiding users to apply these lines.…

BRAZIL’S exports of pigmeat are booming, with over January to July, volume sales overseas increasing 42.2% year-on-year compared to the same time period in 2016. The Brazilian Protein Association (Associação Brasileira de Proteína Animal) says that from January to July this year (2016), 413,300 tonnes have been exported, be it frozen or processed meat, including sausages.…

The Russian government will by the end of this month (September) appeal the recent ruling of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) opposing Russia’s swine fever-related ban on European Union (EU) exports of pigs, pigmeat and related products by the end of September, according to the Russian government.…

Growing competition across the world for clothing outsourcing contracts, with China not only being challenged in Asia, but by sub-Saharan African and even Russian suppliers, is pushing Asian governments to sharpen their industrial policy to retain market share, a major international conference has heard.…

RUSSIA is banning imports of fruit and vegetables from Egypt as of September 22. The Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (‘Rosselkhoznadzor’) confirmed the ban and noted it is the result of Egyptian exporters’ non-compliance to Russian phytosanitary rules.…

There is “irrefutable evidence” the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 that crashed over war-torn Ukraine on 17 July 2014 was hit by a Russia-made BUK missile from the 9M38 series, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service’s Joint Investigation Team (JIT) told a Wednesday (September 28) press conference for relatives of the 298 victims.…

RUSSIAN police have arrested Dmitry Zakharchenko, a senior anti-corruption official, charging him with abuse of power, obstruction of justice and accepting bribes in Moscow’s Presnensky district court on September 10. This followed police raids seizing more than USD122 million in cash – USD120 million and EUR2 million – allegedly held by the deputy head of the energy industry department of the General Administration of Economic Security and Combating Corruption (GAESCC).…

THE DEVELOPMENT of electricity interconnectors crossing national borders is simultaneously a technical and geo-political act, requiring careful planning and skilled installation of technology, along with an eye towards promoting security of power supplies.

Such investments are a priority of the European Union (EU) and its member states under its Energy Union programme.…

EUROPEAN COMMISSION LAUNCHES GLOBAL TAX AVOIDANCE BLACKLIST ASSESSMENT

THE EUROPEAN Commission has completed the first phase of an assessment designed to help the European Union (EU) frame its own blacklist of jurisdictions deemed un-cooperative over tax avoidance and evasion. Brussels has released a ‘scoreboard’ of non-EU jurisdictions judging whether they exchange information with foreign tax authorities, have preferential or low tax regimes, have close and important economic and financial links with the EU and are politically stable (and hence more attractive as a tax haven).…

THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) has told Russia that its import duties on palm oil and its fractions break global trading rules and it will have to cut or remove them. They are 3% at present, although they cannot fall below 0.09 EUR/kg.…