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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHAIRMAN of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) agricultural liberalisation talks revealed plans this week to run the Lausanne marathon, in a city neighbouring the WTO’s Geneva. And whilst there are many of us who think sport running is for heroes or lunatics (or both), we can at least admire their stamina.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel is taking a tough line against critics of her sugar reform plan, telling the European Parliament agriculture committee she is sticking to her proposed 39% price cut. She also insisted the plan needs political agreement by November, ahead of December’s World Trade Organisation Hong Kong summit.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BARRIERS preventing the insurance industry from penetrating one of the world’s last largely-untapped insurance markets are to be demolished, with Saudi Arabia agreeing to liberalise a strict regulatory system to gain World Trade Organisation (WTO) membership.

In a key deal with the US, Saudi Arabia has promised to sweep away restrictions hindering insurers from offering standard western-style services previously deemed un-Islamic under the country’s strict Wahabist Sunni Muslim system.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
FIGHTING money laundering is about getting your hands dirty. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) may pronounce global standards that it would like jurisdictions to follow, but all governments need help, and often regional bodies are better placed to do the detailed work than more remote global organisations.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE USA launch of a new “safer” cigarette called Fact, whose filter supposedly cuts out harmful chemicals without impacting on taste, has been delayed because of fears its marketing could mislead consumers into thinking it was “safe”. The cigarette – a PREP (potentially reduced-exposure product) – was to be manufactured by an independent tobacco company in North Carolina, US: the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE USA launch of a new “safer” cigarette Fact that sports a filter cutting out harmful chemicals has been delayed over fears its marketing could mislead consumers into thinking it was “safe”. The PREP (potentially reduced-exposure product) cigarette was to be manufactured by an independent tobacco company in North Carolina, US, the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA’S competitors in the race to exploit this year’s abolition of clothing and textile import quotas have been holding their own in sales to the European Union (EU), new trade figures show. Released by the European Commission, the statistics illustrate how China has – as expected – grown EU exports sharply: from January to May, it sold Euro 7.3 billion’s worth of clothing and textile products, up from Euro 5.4 billion the previous year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE USA launch of a new “safer” cigarette called Fact that sports a filter cutting out harmful chemicals has been delayed because of fears the marketing of the product could mislead consumers into thinking it was “safe”. The cigarette referred to as a PREP, (potentially reduced-exposure product), was to be manufactured by an independent tobacco company in North Carolina, US, called the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW “safer” cigarette sporting a filter that cuts out harmful chemicals will be launched in the United States later this month.

The product will be marketed under the brand Fact, and although its filter – created by Hong Kong biotech company Filigent – looks like any other cigarette filter, it has been treated with a patented chemical process that screens out a variety of cancer-causing toxins.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW “safer” cigarette sporting a filter cutting out harmful chemicals will be launched in the United States later this month, under the brand Fact. Although its filter – created by Hong Kong biotech company Filigent – looks like standard filters, it is treated with a patented chemicals process blocking cancer-causing toxins.…