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CHINA PACKAGING FEATURE
BY EDWARD PETERS
THE PAST decade has seen China grasp an increasing share of the world’s cosmetic packaging industry. Low production prices and international manufacturing standards — to say nothing of an increasing appreciation of the beauty business — have all contributed to the People’s Republic upping its packaging profile.…
MEXICO DEATH ROW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States government will have to reconsider the fate of foreign nationals on death row, after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled it had breached its obligations under the Vienna Convention on consular relations, by failing to inform 51 Mexican convicts of their right to contact diplomats “without delay” after arrest.…
US TRUST LAWS
Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is fighting a legal decision it fears could make United States courts de facto global anti-trust regulators, even in cases with no direct impact on the USA. It has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a DC Court of Appeals ruling allowing non-US plaintiffs to bring foreign anti-trust claims to American courts claiming a case might have a “direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on US domestic or foreign commerce.”…
FLOOD RISKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ASSOCIATION of British Insurers (ABI) is pressing the UK Government to maintain its raised level of spending on flood defences, as it works towards its next public spending round announcement in the summer. Following the spate of disastrous floods in 2000, Whitehall in 2002 increased its annual spending on the problem by Pounds 150 million.…
CRAZY DRINKS LAWS
BY PHILIP FINE
AT LEAST no one in today’s America has to contend with Carry Nation. She was the late-19th century Kansas reformer who crusaded against the sale and consumption of alcohol. Known as the original saloon smasher, she would burst into bars and cause as much damage as she could to drinking establishments.…
WET SEAL
BY PHILIP FINE
UNITED States private-label garment retailers will be asking themselves whether they should in future demand more stringent labour relations codes with external clothing manufacturers, after chain Wet Seal settled a case involving questionable third-party labour practices. Four garment workers had filed wage claims against their employer, DT Sewing, as well as Wet Seal, the 619-store national chain with which DT did business.…
ALBANIA FEATURE - MONEY LAUNDERING
BY MARK ROWE
MENTION Albania and money, and the image that comes to mind is of the extraordinary pyramid schemes that gripped the country in the mid-1990s as the country stepped out into a post-Stalinist dawn. Albanians poured their assets into the schemes, with an enthusiasm that was as remarkable as it was misguided.…
USA-AUSTRALIA DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SHOE industry members of a specialist United States committee have strongly backed the US-Australia free trade agreement. Representatives on the sector advisory committee on footwear, leather and leather products welcomed its restrictive rules of origin (protecting shoe-makers) and lengthy 10-year tariff phase-outs for 17 protective footwear items of particular concern.…
RESPONSIBLE CARE FEATURE
BY DEIRDRE MASON
RESPONSIBLE Care as a concept has been a touchstone of the paint industry for many years, but it should in the coming months prove its worth in the UK and continental Europe. As is often the case with environmental legislation impacting on the paint and coatings industry, an important driver is the European Union (EU), which has approved a raft of directives that come into effect either this year or shortly afterwards.…
USA-AUSTRALIA DEAL LATEST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FREE trade deal struck between the United States and Australia that will phase out all tariffs on non-ferrous metals traded between the two countries has been welcomed by a specialist US federal committee, consulted as part of the ratification process.…