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THE COMMITTEE of European Sugar Users (CIUS) has called on the European Union (EU) to take urgent action to prevent EU confectionery and sweet bakery manufacturers facing a sugar supply crunch this summer. In a strongly worded message, the industry group has said that duties and levies should not be imposed on supplies of beet and cane sugar and the EU’s cane sugar ‘CXL’ duty should be scrapped immediately.…

Luxembourg’s alliance with American space tech firms to create a European hub for asteroid mining is ambitious. But these innovators could be frustrated by something as down-to-earth as simple demand-and-supply.

If technology for landing probes on asteroids, digging up metals and flying them back to Earth is developed, then – sure – many mining investors will the frothing at the mouth over tapping space bodies full of platinum, palladium and rhodium.…

Poland has requested measures to help boost its struggling pigmeat sector at an European Council of Minsters’ agriculture and fisheries meeting, expressing “deep concern at the development of the situation in the pigmeat market.

A document circulated to EU ministers by the Polish delegation to the council said additional financial resources, or “exceptional support”, from the EU for the pigmeat sector to compensate for producers’ continuing losses resulting from Russia’s embargo and a drought in 2015.…

A recent crackdown on a counterfeit shampoo factory in Spain has shone a spotlight on a burgeoning and problematic underground illicit industry, operating across Europe with links to criminal gangs, money-laundering and terrorism.

A 2013 study by European Union’s (EU) trademarks and designs agency the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) says counterfeit cosmetics and perfumes in the EU netted EUR4.7 billion (USD 5.2 billion) in sales on average between 2008 and 2011.…

The Chilean chocolate market grow by almost 11% annually over the last four years to hit 2.4 kilogrammes annually per head during 2014, with Chile’s consumption overtaking Argentina for the first time, according to data from market analysts Nielsen. But while overall consumption is growing, Chileans are also becoming increasingly sophisticated in their tastes, which has given rise to a growing market for gourmet chocolates, both locally produced and imported.…

THE HIGH cost of electricity in Cambodia is holding the country’s textile investments from taking off, Blaise Kilian, the advocacy manager of the European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (EuroCham Cambodia) has told WTiN.

It is, he said, a “major obstacle” to investments in the textiles sector and “makes it economically unviable to power the heavy machinery required for such activity.”…

PRIVATE label brands for cosmetics and personal care products are attracting consumers with an increasingly wide range of offerings that stress their value-added nature, as well as affordable prices. Reflecting private labels’ innate reliance on quality and function rather than image, manufacturers supplying these products have been especially focusing on using scents to add value, from traditional florals to more adventurous notes.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission is investigating whether Spanish government support for Spain-based ICL Iberia Súria & Sallent (formerly Iberpotash) have breached European Union (EU) ‘state aid’ rules. These are designed to prevent EU governments from unfairly helping local companies within the EU’s 28 country border-free market.…

A two-year joint-operation between Europol and the Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) has shut down a EUR300 million money laundering and counterfeit goods network focused on Spain. ‘Operation Snake’ closed in on the gang on May 11, with more than 200 officers searching 65 residences and making 35 arrests.…

Mexico has commenced negotiations with the European Union (EU) that could boost its production and export of barytes, quartz, granite and silica sand – on average, say Mexican government mining officials, two thirds Mexico’s deposits of these minerals remain unexploited.
The talks, which started on the June 12 during the 7th EU-Mexico Summit in Brussels, set benchmarks for negotiations to upgrade a 15-year old free trade agreement (FTA) by tackling non-tariff barriers, extending intellectual property rights to more products and revising investor protection provisions.…