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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DEVELOPMENT of a North Pole ozone layer hole is unlikely, according to a report from the UN Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Programme. It claims that the accumulation of ozone destroying substances in the upper atmosphere is near its peak and that the size of the Antarctic hole seems to be stablilising, probably thanks to the Montreal Protocol, which limited the release of such chemicals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has published a list of exported American metals and metal products that could be saddled with protective duties of up to 100 per cent, because of a World Trade Organisation ruling allowing Brussels to retaliate against the US’s use of foreign trade corporations to give its exporters illegal tax breaks.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A California judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed against major

U.S. cigarette manufacturers over children’s exposure to cigarette

advertising during the 1990s, citing freedom-of-speech protections, the

companies said on Sept 13. San Diego Superior Court Judge Ronald Prager

late Thursday (Sept 12) dismissed the suit, which was filed by Devin

Daniels on behalf of all California minors who smoked between April 1994

and December 1999 and were exposed to cigarette advertising.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RICHES that can be made from the illegal ivory trade are well known, but what of illicit imports and exports of rare flowers. Shipping protected orchids to Europe, Japan and north America can make criminals a lot of money.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL community is expected to make solid progress towards the creation of a United Nations Convention against Corruption, during the ongoing third meeting of the ad hoc committee established to draft the treaty.

This session, which lasts until October 11 will especially focus on corruption within the private sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Intellectual Property Organisation is moving ahead with its project to build a new administrative building at its Geneva headquarters, with Stuttgart architects Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner working to a SFr 157.5 million budget.

They have drawn up plans for a building with a minimum of 560 working places and 280 underground parking spaces.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has published a list of exported American meat products that could be saddled with protective duties of up to 100 per cent, because of a World Trade Organisation ruling allowing Brussels to retaliate against the US’s use of foreign trade corporations to give its exporters illegal tax breaks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CREATING finished leather from tanned leather, (in its wet state), is not sufficiently important a manufacturing process to warrant the final product being legally considered a new good, made in the country where it was processed rather than where it was sourced, the chairman of a special World Trade Organisation committee has advised.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ARGENTINE government has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation, launching formal talks with Chile over Santiago’s imposition of 14 per cent temporary safeguard duties on fructose. Argentina claims that Chile broke the WTO’s GATT agreement by imposing the duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CREATING finished leather from tanned leather, (in its wet state), is not sufficiently important a manufacturing process to warrant the final product being legally considered a new good, made in the country where it was processed rather than where it was sourced, the chairman of a special World Trade Organisation committee has advised.…