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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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPANISH government has called for some simplification and flexibility in the implementation of the recent European Union (EU) reforms to its subsidy regime for leaf tobacco growers. It has called on the EU Council of Ministers (agriculture) to allow single payments to be made to producers for the 2005 harvest to avoid calculation problems relating to the transfer of quotas from one grower to another and national reserves of subsidies controlled by governments.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
*Copper

Copper dropped in production between 2003-04 and the previous year. However, the Mt Lyell Copper Mine in Queenstown has deemed copper priced sufficiently to continue its development of a decline to the next production level. Copper prices made significant gains throughout 2003-4, notably in the second half of the financial year and reached the A$4,000 (UK Pounds 1,600) mark by June, a price not achieved since 1995.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SUMMIT meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has decided to formally inaugurate the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on April 16 at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. This is despite the Privy Council ruling that Jamaica had broken its own constitution in passing a law replacing its Law Lords as a final court of appeal with the CCJ.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN and eight other European countries have signed a memorandum of understanding about constructing a groundbreaking X-ray research laser, so acute it could measure chemical reactions in real time. The UK, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Germany have agreed to negotiate in detail an inter-governmental arrangement for building an approximately three-kilometre-long underground laser generator.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking the Spanish government to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), asking judges to order Madrid to conduct environmental assessments into sand extraction it allows along the Spanish Mediterranean coast. Brussels said under European law, Spain should have in particular protected EU-registered Natura 2000 conservation sites.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY and Germany dominate design innovation in the European Union (EU) textile sector, according to the figures from the EU’s Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) – OHIM. They show that in 2003 and 2004, Italy formally registered 2,899 textile designs with the office, gaining them legal protection against plagiarism.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the takeover of Italian copper production holding company Generale Industrie Metallurgiche SpA (GIM), of Italy, by Milan-based finance house INTEK SpA, which is controlled by Quattroduedue Holding BV, of the Netherlands. GIM companies produce and distribute copper and copper alloy products, operating 18 production plants located in Britain, Italy, Germany, Spain and China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed banning exports from the European Union (EU) of mercury by the year 2011, under a comprehensive strategy to stifle the poisonous metal’s use in Europe and elsewhere. Brussels has also proposed that EU national governments make diplomatic efforts to control the mercury trade internationally and prevent its use in industries such as gold mining.…