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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COSMETICS industry has become a key focus for cooperation between regulators in the United States and the European Union (EU), following an EU-US summit staged in Washington this month (June). A detailed communiqué said that cooperation would be ramped up between the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the industry/cosmetics unit of the European Commission’s enterprise directorate-general (DG).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel has told the United States it has until this December 17 to implement a previous ruling that it stages a new sunset review into renewing anti-dumping duties against Argentine exports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States’ honey bee population has been halved by the varroa mite, the US Department of Agriculture has warned, with the parasite developing resistance to miticide chemicals. In some regions, 70% of hives have been lost, said the ministry, with the west coast the hardest hit, devastating honey production and fruit pollination.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S crime-fighting great and good met in Bangkok in April, at the United Nations’ 11th Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. They decided rich countries should better help the poor to fight organised crime. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN IN-DEPTH world analysis has concluded that although nurses taking on doctors’ duties provide a high quality care, they may neither save health care costs nor reduce a doctor’s workload.

The assessment for the UK-based Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews probed 16 studies involving more than 25,000 patients in Britain, the United States and Canada.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NORTH American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) appeals panel has confirmed that the United States sunset review of countervailing and anti-dumping duties on Canadian corrosion resistant steel exports wrongly concluded that this protection should be re-imposed.

The new panel rejected arguments brought by the US International Trade Commission that aimed to shore up its already dismissed claims that the Canadian industry had excess capacity that it could use in the future to hit “already weakened” American competitors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILED negotiations on creating a special immigration status of “trusted persons” for employees and employers travelling between the European Union (EU) and the United States should follow next month’s EU-US summit in Washington, the European Commission has said.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SUDDENLY accountants are being held in unusually high esteem and it’s all because of their work in connection with the relief effort for victims of the Boxing Day tsunami. To date some Pounds 4.7 billion for the stricken countries has been raised worldwide but nothing like that sum has yet got through to the people affected; some of it stolen perhaps and some of it wasted, but a lot of it bogged down in inadequate financial infrastructures: step forward the big multinational accountancy firms who have provided staff, management and professional advice and training, a good deal of it on a pro bono publico basis.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRENCH hair-care giant L’Oréal has launched an alliance with United Nations (UN) cultural and scientific organisation UNESCO to train hundreds of thousands of hair stylists in passing on health advice about HIV/AIDS: not catching it and not passing it on.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRENCH hair-care giant L’Oréal has launched an alliance with United Nations (UN) cultural and scientific organisation UNESCO to train hundreds of thousands of hair stylists in passing on health advice about HIV/AIDS: not catching it and not passing it on.…