Search Results for: World Trade Organisation

BY MARK ROWE
CAN the European Union’s single skies plan become a reality inside 30 months? It is a topical subject, with the recent crash over Germany underlining the arguments in favour and against the project, which should lead to planes flying above 28,000 feet being guided and controlled by unified units of air traffic controllers, replacing the current piecemeal system of national flight monitoring and guidance.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN dyers and finishers are celebrating after the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act was amended by US House of Representatives to clarify the definition of US fabric bought by Caribbean clothing manufacturers wishing to take advantage of the law’s preferential trade terms.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s general council has been asked to approve global trading laws stating that the drying of fish, fish livers, roes and fish fillets should legally be considered a product of the country where fish is processed, not where it was caught.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
APPLICATIONS have been made by the Australian government for the trade in two species of Pacific toothfish to be controlled under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). These species, Dissostichus eleginoides and mawsonii, which are also known as Chilean sea-bass, would be included on its Appendix II list, requiring traders to acquire special permits to deal in them.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
COATINGS giant Asian Paints says that sales success has made it consider opening more of its Colour World units in Sri Lanka, eighteen months after it opened the retail chain on the island to coincide with its launch of its Apcolite emulsion.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMAZON – the world’s largest online book retailer – could soon be selling clothes. The New York Times has reported several unnamed retail industry executives being approached by the on-line giant. Retailers Nordstrom, Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy are expected to be first on board for a launch in the coming months.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
A CHILD sexual abuse case will focus attention on one of the world’s most remote and famous islands: Pitcairn – a tiny British colony between New Zealand and Chile – which was settled by the Bounty mutineers in 1790.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s general council has been asked to approve a series of global trading regulations stating whether a textile manufacturing process is important enough for the processed fabric to legally be considered a new product, made in the country of manufacture rather then where the raw material was sourced.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has released a draft treaty text providing the basis for the final stage of the negotiations of a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Assembled by WHO Brazilian Ambassador Luiz Felipe de Seixas Correa, Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body on the convention, it highlights areas of potential agreement on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, black-marketeering, taxes, and international cooperation in agricultural diversification and financial resources.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE ONTARIO Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers’ Marketing Board has announced the Tillsonburg auction warehouse will close and that the 2001 tobacco crop and future crops, will be marketed exclusively through the nearby Delhi auction exchange.

The board said the reduction in crop size, due to anti-smoking policies and excessive taxation by both Canadian federal and provincial governments, made it uneconomical to operate both the Delhi and Tillsonburg exchanges.…