Search Results for: World Trade Organisation

BY MARK ROWE
TOYOTA Motors is considering buying up Inchcape Motors, a Singapore subsidiary of the world’s largest motor agency, Inchcape plc. The deal is dependent on a proposed delisting of Inchcape Motors, which distributes Toyota and Suzuki in the Asian island state.…

BY PHILIP FINE

GUINNESS UDV is facing federal regulatory scrutiny in the United States after a competitor complained that its Smirnoff Ice TM malt based product misleads consumers, because in the US, it does not contain vodka; the New York State advertising industry’s self-regulatory apparatus has now referred the matter to the US Federal Trade Commission and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms after Guinness refused to take part in the review.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
THE WORLD’S first large-scale conventional solar power station is to be built in the blisteringly hot Australian outback in a A$700 million (UK Pounds 270 million) project.

The station’s circular solar collector will measure 5km in diameter and the collecting tower will soar 1km into the sky.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has ignored strong pressure from the American government to abandon its plans to exempt EU-based suppliers of digital products, (including e-books), from charging VAT when they sell to customers in non-EU countries.…

Keith Nuthall
INDIA V USA

THE EUROPEAN Union and Bangladesh are to join formal World Trade Organisation talks launched by India, which is challenge changes made by the USA to its rules of origin legislation, that New Delhi claims favour the American and European Union textile industries, unfairly discriminating against Indian producers.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo
A SHELL company in Sri Lanka has announced that it has tapped into a lucrative latent demand on the tropical south Asian island for solar electricity systems, installing 5,400 units out of around 10,000 in the country in its first two years of operation.…

BY MARK ROWE
JAPANESE synthetic fibre giant Toray International, one of the world’s largest textile and chemical companies has teamed up with and Mitsui Soko, Japan’s second largest warehousing company, and online logistics firm Bolero International.The companies are jointly running a phased testing of bolero.net…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has lost an appeal lodged against a negative disputes panel ruling at the World Trade Organisation over definitive safeguard duties that it had imposed on imports of circular welded carbon quality line pipe from South Korea.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
FARMED seahorses are being branded in Australia to save wild populations from being poached.

To stem the illegal depletion of wild colonies of seahorses in the oceans a seahorse centre was set up in Tasmania, where they are farmed for consumption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union health and consumer protection Commissioner David Byrne has revealed that the European Commission “will shortly launch a major advertising campaign to increase awareness among teenagers of the negative effects of tobacco consumption.” Speaking about the World No Smoking Day initiative, he said that the move was part of Brussels “tobacco control strategy.”…