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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation is about to embark on key discussions in its agriculture negotiations where diplomats will attempt to firm up broad proposals made last year, to allow detailed horse-trading to start next March. This month (June) discussions will focus on export subsidies and competition and in September on market access and domestic support.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVERY minute of every day a million smokers light up a cigarette made by BAT and the company’s goal is that every one of them is perfect. How does BAT manage this, and at the same time meet its production, technical and environmental challenges when operations are on such a colossal scale ?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
STATE aid payments made to the aviation industry in Norway and Iceland, to enable companies to afford war insurance cover since the September 11 attacks, have been approved by the Surveillance Authority of the European Free Trade Area, (EFTA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MOVE to liberalise the global trade in artificially propagated orchids has been made by the USA, which has formally proposed that six species are exempted from controls under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FEED the world. Bob Geldof. Don’t they know it’s Christmas time? Food aid: it is supposed to be simple. Poor countries have hungry people. Rich countries have fat people. The developed world sends food to the developing world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PERU has won a disputes proceedings case at the World Trade Organisation against the European Union, which has been found unfairly blocking the sale of a Peruvian sardine – sardinops sagax sagax – as sardines, despite Codex Alimentarius standards allow allowing them to be marketed in this way.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE INSURANCE industry is being warned by the International Chamber of Commerce’s Commercial Crime Bureau (CCB) to be suspicious of documents promoting policies using the good name of the ICC.

Fraudsters are mentioning a fake standard called the “Modified Insurance Guarantee ICC 4081,” used in fraudulent documents relating to bank guarantees and letters of credit to add credibility to fictitious policies and high yield investment schemes.…

BY MARK ROWE and RICHARD HURST
WORLD sugar prices are heading for a three-year low and are projected to fall below six US cents a pound as a result of record harvests in a number of countries, particularly in Brazil, which is accused of “over-production.”…

BY MARK ROWE
THE EUROPEAN Union has given itself until the end of this month (May) to make a crunch decision over whether to further subsidise the future insurance of the continent’s airlines in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre, in New York last September.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation will hold an “expert consultation” after the Swedish National Food Administration claimed accumulations of the toxin acrylamide have been found in fried and baked food, to “determine the full extent of the public health risk.”…