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BY KEITH NUTHALL
JAPAN has lost its appeal against a WTO ruling that ruled its quarantine measures on imported apples from the USA could not be legally justified on health grounds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ARENA of occupational health concerns is constantly expanding beyond the immediate workplace and one area of particular interest that is currently under wide discussion at the European Union is road safety. Proposals are being debated that will not only affect the technical design of vehicles, but also on road safety checks by public authorities and compensation available from insurance payouts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Bank report has lauded the growth of the so-called ‘sustainable coffee’ market as a means to raise the low prices commanded by the commodity. “The State of Sustainable Coffee: A Study of Twelve Major Markets” calls for the acceptance of price premiums for ‘fair trade’ and organic smallholder produced coffee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has bit the bullet and drawn up plans to lend US$250 million to help build the planned key Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and gas pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.…

SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
A SHOE making cooperative in India has shown how a niche brand can seize up-market export sales by exploiting elaborate and imaginative designs. The Toe Hold Artisans Collaborative, Karnataka, exported US$60,000 of its lines to Italy, Australia, Japan and Sweden in 2002-3, and is targeting US$100,000 sales this financial year.…

BY MARK ROWE
JAPANESE scientists have developed a beer that they claim acts as a facial treatment to keep you looking young at heart. The beer – which should be drunk rather than applied to the skin – has been produced by the Akita Research Institute of Food and Brewing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE JAPANESE government has appealed against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel ruling that supported claims from the United States that it had followed WTO rules when staging a sunset review of its anti-dumping duties on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JAPAN has appealed against a WTO ruling that ruled its quarantine measures on imported apples from the USA could not be justified on health grounds under the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH European Union ministers poised this autumn to choose their preferred site to host the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER), an independent EU assessment of the two key EU contenders has officially concluded that both the French site Cadarache, and the Spain’s Vandellós “would be likely to win the international site selection”.…