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BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN spirit producers are toning their marketing muscles these days because of the broader scope for advertising they have enjoyed since the end of a prohibition-hangover induced 50-year self-imposed ban on electronic media advertising.

It has only been since 1996 – when this Seagram defied this moratorium – that distillers have been able to realise this advertising potential.…

KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRALIA and the United States have agreed to mutually remove tariffs on textile and clothing traded between them, with duties on products meeting set rules of origin standards being phased out within 15 years. This, said a US Trade Representative Office note on a new American-Australian free trade deal, would “promote new opportunities for US and Australian fibre, yarn, fabric and apparel manufacturing.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Australia have struck a free trade deal that will ease access into the US market for Australian wool exporters. A note from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said: “For our wool industry, an industry priority of zero tariff for greasy wool, a premier Australian export industry, will be achieved within four years, and for other wool items within 10 years.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCIENTISTS in the United States have found new evidence that carbon dioxide, the main emission linked to global warming, is cooling and shrinking the atmosphere’s outermost layers, causing its air to be thinner. According to research conducted by scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, the average density of air 60 miles upwards has dropped by 10 per cent over the last 36 years, and could decline by 50 per cent by the end of the century.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN ONLINE database of information on how pathogenic bacteria respond to different environmental conditions in food has been established by Britain’s Institute of Food Research and the Eastern Regional Research Centre’s Microbial Food Safety Research Unit, in the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representatives Office has been trying to play down the impact a new free trade deal with central American countries will have on US sugar producers. A briefing note however admits widened import quotas will equal 1.2 per cent of US production, rising to 1.7 per cent within 15 years, rising from 99,000 to 140,000 tonnes.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) sub-committee on fish trade has ordered the promotion of cost-effective and global standards to trace a fish’s progress through the commercial chain, from harvesting to consumption. At a meeting in Bremen, Germany, many national representatives expressed concerns about health and safety issues affecting the international fish trade, including consumer perceptions over problems such as antibiotic residues in farmed fish.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AUSTRALIAN aluminium industry will be a key beneficiary of a new free trade deal between its government and the USA that removes all tariffs on metals traded between the two countries, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has signed a free trade deal with Australia, paving the way for large-scale exports into the American market of Australian seafood, both farmed and wild. Upon the ratification and coming into force of the agreement, Australian seafood exports, currently worth around A$140 million (US$110 million), “will enter the USA market duty free immediately”, said a note from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representatives Office has been trying to play down the impact a new free trade deal with central American countries will have on US sugar producers. A briefing note however admits widened import quotas will equal 1.2 per cent of US production, rising to 1.7 per cent within 15 years, rising from 99,000 to 140,000 tonnes.…