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BY PHILIP FINE

AFTER pressure from the licensed beverage industry, America’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) has admitted it overestimated its figures on underage drinkers. CASA had released a report stating that underage people drink 25 percent of the beverage alcohol consumed in the United States.…

BY MARK ROWE
A VIETNAMESE food processor has invented an odourless variety of fish sauce in attempt to crack the American market where the smell of fermented fish is disliked. The Hanh Phuc Food Processing Company in Ho Chi Minh City has already sold 100,000 bottles of odourless sauce worth US$50,000 to the United States.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States government has claimed that Egypt is breaking its World Trade Organisation treaty commitments to bind textile and clothing tariffs, in its new system of specific duties on imports of these products.

Washington has complained to the WTO’s market access committee, claiming that Cairo’s action breaks article two of the GATT agreement on goods tariffs.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
A PROGRAMME to strengthen commercial aviation security on a global scale, primarily through a mandatory audit of national services, has been agreed by all 187 Member States of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) at a two day High-Level, Ministerial Conference held at its headquarters in Montreal, Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
INTERNATIONAL airports across Canada will begin using iris scanners to speed up the security processing of passengers as early as this summer.

Toronto and Vancouver airports are expected to be the first to install the devices, in August; they would allow selected travellers to confirm their identities through a checkpoint scan within thirty seconds or less upon arrival at Canada Customs.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE ICAO security reforms were passed in an atmosphere of some optimism, with industry representatives present at the conference confident that passenger numbers next year will be equal or close to pre-September 11 numbers, with a growth rate of at least five per cent the following year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIALISTS will reconvene in Vienna from June 17-28 to finish considering the United Nations’ draft Convention against Corruption. The first session of the committee charged with the work agreed the treaty should be “flexible and balanced, taking into account the legal, social, cultural, economic and political differences of countries, (and) different levels of development,” balancing preventive and law enforcement measures and boosting international cooperation.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE UNITED States faces another World Trade Organisation battle over tariffs, this time with Thailand over Washington’s intention to waive clothing duties on exports from South American countries. The Thai government has warned that its industries will suffer heavily if the US waives duties on garments and footwear exported from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ALL 187 Member States of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) have endorsed a global programme to strengthen commercial aviation security on a global scale, primarily through a mandatory audit of national services at a two day High-Level, Ministerial Conference held at ICAO Headquarters in Montreal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is common knowledge that deepening concern about terrorism following the September 11 attacks has led to tighter security in the civil aviation industry, but there have also been important implications for the shipping sector. Keith Nuthall reports.…