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BY KEITH NUTHALL

International tobacco crime fighters combine their muscle

Criminals make a fortune out of smuggling and counterfeiting tobacco products. The USA and the European Union have specialist crime-fighting bodies charged with fighting this crime. They are increasingly cooperating with each other and using smarter tactics and tougher laws to make a difference.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

EARLIER this year, the Lebanese-Canadian Bank (LCB) was designated by the United States as a prime money laundering concern, for alleged connections to drug traffickers and acting as a financial conduit for Lebanese political party Hezbollah, which Washington considers a terrorist organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRAZIL and Argentina are among almost 100 countries expected to lose tariff breaks for their textile and clothing exports to the European Union (EU), under a planned reform of the EU’s Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) system.

The European Commission announced yesterday (May 10) it wanted to focus import duty concessions on poorer countries and so henceforth those regarded by the World Bank as high or upper middle income states would no longer qualify from January 2014.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A SERIES of bilateral civil aviation agreements negotiated by the European Union (EU) have remained unenforced because some EU member states have failed to ratify their terms. The European Commission has issued a report branding this "unfortunate", noting this "has the consequence of delaying their entry into force".…

BY WANG FANGQING, MINI PANT ZACHARIAH, KARRYN MILLER and KEITH NUTHALL

EMERGING market coatings exporters sometimes claim tough environmental rules in rich jurisdictions are nothing but a form of protection. And while such arguments can always be contested, it is certainly true that the European Union’s (EU) ongoing and longstanding biocide review will throw up obstacles to Asia-Pacific coatings manufacturers wanting to secure sales in Europe.…

BY JEN SWANSON

UK-BASED financier Standard Chartered Private Equity has told just-food it is bullish about its US dollar USD25 million investment into Bush Foods Overseas Pvt. Ltd, a New Delhi-based basmati rice exporter. "The sector and the company offers great potential," predicted Rahul Raisurana, the investor’s managing director, adding that his company viewed India’s food sector as offering attractive business opportunities at present.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

IN comparison with some other industries, Japan’s cosmetics and beauty care companies have emerged relatively unscathed from the twin natural disasters of an earthquake and tsunami that devastated large parts of the north-east on March 11. That, however, is a relative assessment of the situation as while personal care product firms here will have lost tens of millions of dollars in revenues, Japan’s automobile industry has lost billions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

L’ORÉAL has teamed up with Britain’s University of Newcastle and German green energy company ACS-Umwelttechnik to find ways of reducing personal care product industry energy usage associated with manufacturing waste disposal. United within the European Union (EU)-funded ENERMIN project, the trio have noted in a project note that the personal care industry generates large amounts of waste residues from ingredients used in products.…

BY KELLY WETHERILLE

JAPAN is home to the world’s oldest?and most rapidly ageing?population, which is creating new challenges in both product development and marketing for companies across the beauty and personal care sector. How brands address this new demographic landscape will likely determine their future success in what is already one of the world’s most competitive and saturated markets.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

FRANCE is far ahead of the curve in terms of weaning itself off fossil fuels and sports the closest thing to energy independence of any country in Europe. Ever since 1974 when the government decided to rapidly expand the country’s nuclear power capacity, France has not felt the intense stress of energy insecurity nor been particularly impacted by the rising and falling prices of fuel.…