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BY ALAN OSBORN AND PHILIP FINE

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s competition authority has cleared the purchase

by General Motors of a series of production and sales outlets of the South

Korean car manufacturer Daewoo.

GM is to acquire some of Daewoo’s production facilities for passenger cars

and light commercial vehicles in Korea and Vietnam together with sales

subsidiaries in Austria, the Benelux region, (Belgium, Netherlands and

Luxembourg), France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.…

KEITH NUTHALL
This is based on a feature I wrote for Geographical Magazine a couple of years ago but which I am now focusing solely on Tasmania rather than nationwide.

Tasmanian aquaculture

Matthew Brace, Sydney

Australia is sold to the world as a vast baking continent with quartzite ridges stretching to the horizon like the fossilised carcasses of fallen dinosaurs.…

BY MARK ROWE
INTERNATIONAL organisations are supposed to help business fight off sophisticated crime networks, but now the fraudsters are turning the tables and using the good name of these institutions as part of their scams. Mark Rowe reports.

IT STARTED with a fax from a Chinese businessman to the Vienna headquarters of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP).…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH Africa’s Sappi Adamas paper mill, which produces 35,000 tonnes of paper per annum for export and local markets at Deal Party, near Port Elizabeth, recently celebrated its 50th birthday by gaining ISO 14001 working practice accreditation. Dave Glazebrook, Adamas general manager said it was the first step in reducing the mill’s environmental impact.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SWITZERLAND has complained to a key World Trade Organisation committee that its beef imports are being unfairly restricted by the USA because of concerns that they are contaminated with BSE. It has claimed at the WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Committee that the US should not, for example, be insisting on the onsite inspection of Swiss meat plants, because the Office International des Épizooties has classified Switzerland as having a low incidence the disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, MONICA DOBIE AND PHILIP FINE

IF there is one striking characteristic about Washington’s Bush Administration, it must be its almost unprecedented ability to infuriate the entire world with its unilateralism, especially its self-serving trade policies.

For years, the US government has actually played Mary Poppins on food production subsidies, claiming that its handouts do not encourage farmers to overproduce when prices are low.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A FEAT of legal logistics is about to be performed on the remote South Pacific island of Pitcairn.

Midway between New Zealand and Chile, Pitcairn was settled by the Bounty mutineers in 1790 and their descendents still populate this tiny British colony.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
SOUTH Africa is being warned that it needs to invest to take advantage of opportunities to boost clothing exports to the US under the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), which allows its clothes to be exported to the US duty free if manufactured from local materials.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE ONTARIO Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers’ Marketing Board has announced the Tillsonburg auction warehouse will close and that the 2001 tobacco crop and future crops, will be marketed exclusively through the nearby Delhi auction exchange.

The board said the reduction in crop size, due to anti-smoking policies and excessive taxation by both Canadian federal and provincial governments, made it uneconomical to operate both the Delhi and Tillsonburg exchanges.…

Keith Nuthall
A SPECIAL conference on settling a number of maritime border disputes in the Caribbean has been launched, which could help develop international law regarding the effect of uninhabited island on establishing exclusive economic zones.

One wrangle is between Venezuela and the Caribbean island state of St Kitts and Nevis, which has been protesting about maritime boundary treaties concluded by the south American state regarding the so-called Isla Aves; they grant the islands full territorial sea status, including an exclusive economic zone, or continental shelf.…