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BY LEAH GERMAIN

THE UNITED States Trade Representative (USTR) has joined forces with the European Union (EU) to press Indonesia to simplify its licensing for meat and livestock imports. The US and Canada, with the support of the EU, Brazil, New Zealand, Japan and Switzerland, have complained to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) import licensing committee, claiming that Indonesia’s tough licensing for meat and livestock imports could seriously damage trade.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

WITH what was once an estimated net worth of over USD2 billion, R. Allen Stanford was once revered as one of the wealthiest men in America. Yet a Texas court has now heard in detail that his wealth, which he displayed in both opulent and lavish ways, was derived from ill-gotten gains.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A FIVE-YEAR Euro EUR1.9 million research project has been launched to develop intelligent polymers able to release scents among other functionalities. These behaviours would be controllable, so that "mechanical stress provides the activation energy to trigger specific pre-programmed chemical reactions," said a European Commission memorandum.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

HEALTH is not really a priority for most confectionery consumers, but it is covered by ingredient labelling designed to promote well-being anyway – and the industry has to take note. The European Union (EU) is a case in point: it has been updating legislation on food labelling to promote consumer awareness about not-so-healthy ingredients in food products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND KITTY SO, IN OTTAWA; AND CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

KNOWING how to speak two languages in a country where there are two official languages is always going to be a good bet. But as well as the delights of knowing you peanuts from your arachides and your gelée from your jelly, there are whole host of additional cognitive advantages to mastering two tongues rather than one.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

SO it’s done at last. Reform of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) Recommendations was formally agreed at the plenary session in Paris on February 15 after some two years of high-powered negotiations and a vast amount of consultation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PHARMACEUTICAL major Bristol-Myers Squibb is among 85 mainly health-centred organisations requesting changes to the latest European Commission planned reforms to European Union (EU) pharmaceutical good distribution practice guidance. Commenting on proposals that medicinal products not intended for EU markets should be kept in segregated areas, BMS comments that "for supply chain efficiency, many companies ship their goods together.…

BY MARK ROWE

ALTHOUGH it has been likened to a 21st century Silk Road, the southern gas corridor is currently making painstaking and troubled progress; inching its way through the political and economic strife that stands between the Caspian Sea and Western Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ILLICIT flow into the European Union (EU) of dumped cut-price China-made molybdenum wire is being choked off by new antidumping duties of 64.3% that will henceforth apply to exports of this metal product from Malaysia. The EU Council of Ministers has been convinced that a sudden bloom of molybdenum wire exports from Malaysia to the EU – from zero in 2009 to six tonnes from April 2010 to March 2011 – was not because of the birth of a Malaysian molybdenum sector.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

A REPORT from the anti-bribery working group of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has attacked Italy over the tardiness and weakness of its anti-bribery efforts. While, the paper did recommend that the organised-crime ridden country had made "significant enforcement efforts" through its "comprehensive framework for prosecuting the foreign bribery offence", these efforts were insufficient.…