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BY KEITH NUTHALL
COUNTRIES who failed to agree a set of binding ‘modalities’ targets for the ongoing World Trade Organisation agricultural talks have backed a timetable of meetings to try and secure a deal by September. They backed a plan proposed by talks chairman Stuart Harbinson to “organise technical and other consultations in order to facilitate progress on all fronts.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHILE has been given until December 23 to scrap a price band system, using variable import duties to maintain domestic sugar prices. A World Trade Organisation arbiter made the ruling after Chile lost a WTO dispute over the system, brought by Argentina.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TEMPORARY safeguard measures protecting Brazilian producers of dried coconuts, (shelled and shredded), have been imposed on imports into Brazil of this confectionary ingredient from the Ivory Coast and Indonesia. These countries supply 4.67 per cent and 59.49 per cent of dried coconut imports into Brazil respectively, said a note to the World Trade Organisation.…

BY PHILIP FINE AND KEITH NUTHALL

THE USA government has finalised procedures for framing safeguard protection minimising the impacts on the American textile industry from Chinese imports, with details due to be released soon. US Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Grant Aldonas said requesters of protection would have to provide to CITA (the US Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements) specific information supporting a claim of market disruption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PROGRESS has been made in negotiations between the European Union and Canada over a wide-ranging wine and spirits industry deal, according to EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler. He told a meeting of the EU Council of Ministers for agriculture and fisheries that a draft agreement was ready for approval.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDIAN government has been celebrating an unexpected victory in the long running bed linen dispute with the European Union, after a World Trade Organisation appellate body overturned a ruling that the EU had complied with an earlier order to review its anti-dumping duties on imports of the product from India.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHILE has moved to create a disputes panel at the World Trade Organisation, asking it to order Uruguay to abolish its Specific Internal Tax system, which Santiago claims levies much heavier taxes on imported tobacco, cigarettes, alcohol and other generally excisable goods, than on domestically produced lines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHILE has moved to create a disputes panel at the World Trade Organisation, opposing Uruguay’s Specific Internal Tax system, which Santiago claims levies heavier taxes on imported alcohol, (including wines, spirits, beer and mineral waters), than on domestically produced lines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPED countries have agreed to enter into formal talks with developing countries, if poorer food exporting states encounter problems complying with any new food health restrictions imposed by richer importing trading partners. The commitment was framed in a Canadian proposal to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) sanitary and phytosanitary measures committee under the ongoing Doha development round talks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released its detailed offer for improving the access of non-European Union accountants into the EU market, as part of the ongoing Doha Development Round at the World Trade Organisation.

If its trading partners offer concessions in return, Brussels says it is prepared to allow “foreign accountants will be allowed to review and compile financial statements and other accounting information for European clients.”…