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BY KEITH NUTHALL
DECEMBER 2005’s semi-successful World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong means that the sacrifice forced upon the European Union’s (EU) well protected sugar sector the month before will – largely – be worth the pain. Unlike the previous big WTO meeting, in Cancun, Mexico, trade ministers did not leave in rancour having achieved little.…

BY TAMARA VANTROYEN, in Hong Kong

CHINA looks to be a likely candidate for the first country in the world to approve genetically modified rice, despite the fact that the State Agricultural GM Crop Biosafety Committee, a technical body which evaluates GM rice for research, did not approve the idea at its three-day meeting in Beijing, December 10-12, 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-wide customs initiative has netted thousands of counterfeit articles of knitted clothing manufactured from China. Operation Fake was two-week exercise involving customs authorities, the EU anti-fraud office, OLAF, and the European Commission’s taxation and customs directorate, and took place this May, although its results have just been released.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHAIRMAN of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) agricultural liberalisation talks has warned the December 13-18 Hong Kong trade summit is unlikely to agree comprehensive final goals for the negotiations. New Zealand Ambassador Crawford Falconer said there remained significant disagreements on market access (tariffs, import quotas, etc).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHAIRMAN of the WTO agricultural liberalisation talks has warned that the December 13-18 Hong Kong trade summit is highly unlikely to agree comprehensive final goals for the negotiations. New Zealand Ambassador Crawford Falconer said there remained significant disagreements on market access (tariffs, import quotas, etc).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EXPORTS in Hong Kong have warned that the human H5N1 strain of avian flu detected in northern Vietnam this year has proved resistant to Tamiflu, the commercial brand of oseltamivir, the powerful antiviral drug considered the best chance of fighting the disease, especially if human-to-human transmission arose.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has warned “bottlenecks in Indian and Pakistan airspace” are being caused by “route and level restrictions and limitations within the Kabul FIR”, in Afghanistan. The problem has caused traffic intended for the Kabul-controlled area to be diverted via Iran.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHAIRMAN of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) agricultural liberalisation talks has warned that the December 13-18 Hong Kong trade summit is highly unlikely to agree comprehensive final goals for the negotiations. New Zealand Ambassador Crawford Falconer said that there remained significant disagreements on market access (tariffs, import quotas, etc).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISK of bird flu entering the European Union (EU) is becoming increasingly likely, with the European Commission banning imports of live birds and untreated feathers from Turkey, after a suspected outbreak in this country straddling Europe and Asia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are preparing for the key December 13-18 summit in Hong Kong, where it is hoped key decisions will be made regarding the overall goals of the Doha Development Round’s agricultural talks.…