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BY SHEENA ROSSITER

BRAZIL is set to extend its global leadership in can recycling with millions being pumped into the recycling process. Novelis, one of the world’s largest producers of rolled aluminium products and a global leader in aluminium beverage can recycling, has the leading hand in investment with back-to-back investment of USD360 million having been injected into the aluminium recycling industry over the past two years and in the year to come.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled American beef and pork product origin labelling rules are so tight they breach a global trade agreement. A WTO disputes panel has backed a Canadian complaint about US rules insisting pork or beef products sold in America must be born, raised and slaughtered in the United States to carry a ‘made-in-the-USA’ label.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

UPRISINGS in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) this year have hit demand for printers in Lebanon, which has long been the printing hub of the region. Lebanese printers canvassed privately for Print Week MEA report that the upheavals have seen demand from Egypt and Syria decline, while transportation has been marginally affected from Lebanon due to the situation in neighbouring Syria.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Talks between Mexico and China at the World Trade Organization have failed to resolve a dispute over Mexico’s claims that China is illegally subsidising its textile and apparel producers, the Mexican government has told just-style. A spokesperson for Mexico’s ministry of economy said the two days of WTO consultations did not result in a settlement, opening the way for Mexico to request a WTO dispute panel to rule on its claims.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

Venezuela’s so-called ‘autonomous’ public universities are claiming they will receive only a fraction of the state funding they require in 2012 under a new government budget, currently being finalised in the country’s national assembly. The universities claim they are being singled out because of their independence – they are public, but not under the control of President Hugo Chavez’ leftist government.…

BY ZLATKO CONKAS

Will Croatia’s ascension to the EU hamper the country’s tobacco industry?

Croatia’s strong tobacco sector stands to benefit from selling into the European Union once the country joins the EU. However it could lose trade in neighbouring states because of duty changes.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

The Bangladesh government is currently withholding permission for a United States-sponsored survey to check if child and forced labour is employed in the country’s apparel sector, even though the local garment industry has no objection. "The government should grant the permission", Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin, president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association told just-style: "Anyone can visit and check that there is no child labour in our industry".…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

THE DIRECTOR for the United Steelworkers Union (USU) in Ontario and Atlantic Canada has welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada to reject a constitutional appeal by US Steel against the Canadian government in a row about a steel plant takeover.…

BY MARK ROWE and ZLATKO CONKAS

THE AMBITION of Serbia to join the European Union (EU) is proving problematic on a number of fronts, with the country’s control of money laundering a major hurdle. In February 2010, 50 people were arrested, suspected of using money laundering and tax evasion involving up to USD2.7 million.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, terrorist attacks thrust anti-money laundering (AML) and counter terrorist financing (CTF) initiatives into the spotlight as the United States embarked on its ‘war on terror’. A decade later, tremendous progress has been made in tracking and seizing dirty money.…