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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TURKISH and Ecuadorian governments have struck a deal to solve their dispute at the World Trade Organisation over Turkey’s import restrictions on Ecuador’s fruit exports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union and its allies at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) negotiations over the creation of a global register for protected geographical indications in the wine and spirit trade have made a significant concession, which may be the basis for a future deal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WATER privatisation has certainly had its critics, but it has a new supporter in the shape of the European Commission. It has publicly backed the growing privatisation of Europe’s water utilities, with its internal market commissioner praising British government moves to inject competition into its national sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
*A supermarket boom in sub-Saharan Africa is raising food production and distribution standards, which many small farmers cannot meet, said the UN’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). It called for the funding of cooperatives, micro-loans and training, especially in South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland.…

BY PHILIP FINE

RUSSIAN officials have asked the United States Department of Agriculture for a more detailed explanation of the recent Pilgrim’s Pride mass meat recall. Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency reported that the Russian Veterinary Service has filed an official inquiry to better understand the October 12 recall of more than 27 million pounds of ready-to-eat turkey and chicken.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to impose definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain welded tubes and pipes, or iron or non-alloy steel from Czech Republic, Poland, Thailand, Turkey and the Ukraine. The proposal follows the imposition of provisional duties in March.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to ban most travellers arriving in the EU from bringing personal imports of meat, meat products, milk or milk products, on their person or in their luggage, unless accompanied by veterinary documentation. Only travellers arriving from Greenland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and eastern European countries applying to be EU members (barring Turkey) will be exempt.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL convention improving the right of access by children to separated parents who live in different countries is expected to become European law, with the European Commission proposing that the European Union signs up to its terms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has published a list of exported American meat products that could be saddled with protective duties of up to 100 per cent, because of a World Trade Organisation ruling allowing Brussels to retaliate against the US’s use of foreign trade corporations to give its exporters illegal tax breaks.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IN September 1901 the legendary American tycoon James Buchanan “Buck” Duke entered the office of the Player brothers’ cigarette firm in Nottingham with the unforgettable words: “Hello boys, I’m Duke from New York, come to buy your business.”…