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The value of European Union (EU) exports of spirits and liqueurs dropped 1.6% in value last year after being the fastest-growing product group in 2012, according to the European Commission’s ‘Agricultural trade in 2013: EU Gains in Commodity Exports’ report. Whisky exports in particular dropped steeply – by EUR131 million.…

THE EUROPEAN Union has decided to ask a World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel to rule on the legality of Russia’s ban on its exports of live pigs, pork and other pig products. The European Commission claims formal talks with Moscow over two days (April 30 and May 1) failed to resolve the issue.…

KAZAKHSTAN’S promising beef industry is trying to create its own breeder herds, with a plan to import as many as 10,000 Angus and Hereford cows from the US and Australia, KazBeef Ltd  LLC director general Beibit Yerubayev told globalmeatnews.com.

This is all part of efforts to make the central Asian country a beef exporting powerhouse, building from its current 5,000 tonnes of annual beef and beef products exports.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has delayed the creation of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel to rule on Russian complaints that the EU is illegally restricting its fertiliser exports. EU diplomats rejected a Russian move to set up panel at a meeting of the WTO disputes settlement body (DSB).…

IN 2012, after years of delays, Brazil instated a new money laundering law, finally bringing this economically vibrant and influential country more or less in line with international standards.  Two years later, what difference has it actually made?    

Brazil’s first official money laundering law (Law 9613) was enacted in 1998.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a new European Energy Security Strategy, aimed at further reducing Europe’s reliance on energy imports, notably on politically unreliable trading partners such as Russia.

Its new policy plan was to be debated at the next European Union (EU) summit (European Council) on June 26-27, in Brussels.…

The European Union (EU) has delayed the creation of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel to rule on Russian complaints that the EU is illegally restricting certain exports of Russia-made steel tubes and pipes.

EU diplomats rejected a Russian move to set up panel at a meeting of the WTO disputes settlement body (DSB).…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) launch of a disputes proceeding at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over Russian anti-dumping duties on German and Italian van exports might seem like diplomatic overkill. But experts say there are good geo-political reasons behind the case brought by the EU executive, the European Commission.…

Pressure is growing on Hungary’s government to change the country’s tobacco excise laws, which can block sales of distributed products, with the European Commission and the Hungarian tobacco industry calling for the policy to be changed.

Zoltán Pankucsi, deputy state secretary for accounting and taxation at Hungary’s ministry for national economy, confirmed to Tobacco Journal International that Hungary levies excise duties on tobacco by means of tax markings on packaging.…

Russia might be have signed a series of intergovernmental agreements with China, but the Russian textile sector will not be a direct beneficiary, the Russian ministry of industry and trade has confirmed to WTiN.com. Initialled during the May 19 – 20 visit of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to China, the agreements will focus on Russian energy sales, and instead, Russia’s government is to design a package of measures aimed at substituting of Chinese textile and clothing imports with domestically produced clothing and textile products.…