Search Results for: World Trade Organisation

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
ONE of the world’s most inhospitable deserts is yielding scores of unknown species that have existed since the time of the dinosaurs.

They have been discovered in the Simpson Desert in central Australia, where summer temperatures reach 50C and where there is no rain for months, sometimes years.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has issued formal guidelines to its (mostly rich and often European) member governments to use their financial muscle when striking contracts for electricity supplies and power projects generally, to impose conditions that favour environmental good practice.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL organisation is to be set up later this year to help developing country governments negotiate better deals for drug access, as well as helping local researchers to protect their ideas from being poached. The MIHR, (Management of Intellectual property in Health Research and development), will be set up by public health and intellectual property experts from Britain and the Netherlands, with the assistance of experts from Asia, Africa, south America and north America.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TALKS were held this week between the USA and the European Union (Feb 13) in Washington DC over the threat of safeguard duties that the Bush administration is threatening to impose on certain steel imports into America. Unusually in a case where the EU is a complainant, the US suggested the formal talks; while accepting the offer in a note to the World Trade Organisation, Brussels said that it also wanted a further round of talks, quoting WTO safeguard rules requiring “adequate opportunity for prior consultation on the measure that the United States is seeking to apply.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has endorsed a mandatory global air industry security audit, checking standards in all its 187 member states. The initial cost of the ICAO Aviation Security Plan of Action is US$ 17 million, agreed a High-Level Ministerial Conference held in the organisation’s Montreal headquarters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PORT of Durrës, in Albania – one of Europe’s poorest countries – is to receive a much needed financial shot in the arm of Euro 17 million from the European Investment Bank, which will pay for the rehabilitation and upgrading of cargo handling facilities and quays.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE INVSTMENT arm of South Africa’s Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Worker’s Union has announced that it is to acquire a 7.24 per cent stake in Aspen Pharmacare, the country’s largest pharmaceutical group, for Rand 150 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MARK ROWE
ALTHOUGH the future of the controversial bilateral open skies agreements, struck between the United States and a string of European Union Member States, has been thrown into doubt by an advocate general of the European Court of Justice, this is by no means regarded as a disaster by Europe’s airport industry.…

BY RICHARD HURST
USA President George W. Bush has approved 35 African countries as eligible for tariff preferences regarding clothing and textile exports to America under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), with Zimbabwe and Gambia being notable sub-Saharan African pariahs from the move.…