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Keith Nuthall
ESTONIA has announced how it intends to implement the first three phases of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, fulfilling commitments made on its 1999 accession, to comply with WTO treaties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation are to examine in detail proposals made by the Australian government for the dismantling of bureaucratic barriers that prevent architects from practising abroad. Its detailed suggestions were made in the ongoing WTO services round, which has just reached the end of its first stage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RIGHTS of clothing retailers to sell re-exported products, against the wish of a manufacturer, are likely to be strengthened by an oncoming European Court of Justice ruling on parallel trading.

In a preliminary legal opinion, ECJ advocate general Stix-Hackl said that the right of a trade-mark holder to “control the initial distribution of goods within the European Economic Area,” (the EU, plus Norway and Iceland), was “not unlimited.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union countries are still achieving economic growth at the cost of exhausting the world’s natural energy and mineral resources, a report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) has claimed. It commissioned Germany’s Wuppertal Institute to use the recently-developed Total Material Requirement (TMR) indicator to calculate the EU’s overall burden on the environment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has lifted quotas and tariffs restricting imports of clothing products from the Ukraine, Sri Lanka and Bosnia. This follows a promise from these countries that they would reduce tariff and quota barriers restricting the export of EU-made clothing products.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA) introduced in the UK on 27

March have begun smoothly, in spite of warnings earlier in the year from

electricity companies that insufficient testing of the system had taken

place and that market conditions were not favourable.…

Keith Nuthall
AN APPEAL has been made at the United Nations, by the Global Environment Facility organisation, to private utilities and government organisations, asking them to invest in sustainable energy development in the world’s poorer countries

Mohamed El-Ashry, the GEF’s Chief Executive Officer was speaking at a ministerial meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation are to examine in detail proposals made by the Australian government for the dismantling of bureaucratic barriers that prevent engineers and their firms from working in foreign countries. Its detailed suggestions were made in the ongoing WTO services round, which has just reached the end of its first stage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SO SWEEPING has been the foot-and-mouth tragedy in the UK, that British farmers might be forgiven for assuming that they have been singled out for retribution by the Almighty, in return for long forgotten sins.

This is far from being the truth, of course.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A TEST to detect counterfeit Cuban cigars has been developed by scientists at Canada Customs where fakes are smuggled in by the thousands by Canadian tourists travelling to Cuba.

The test detects the unique chemical structure found in tobacco leaves grown and processed in Cuba and are compared to counterfeits that do not have the same chemical signature.…