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BRAZIL’S STEPS TO IMPROVE ITS AML/CFT

11th Jun 2025

Brazil is trying to improve its Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CFT) system with stronger penalties and more supervision, but some gaps remain.

Brazil, which is among the countries with the highest alerts (1.36 million in 2023) for financial crimes involving shell companies, as per the Moody’s Shell Company Indicator quoted by CNN (1), “has made important strides to improve” its Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CFT) system and “is achieving some positive results”, but still “needs to strengthen cooperation and coordination between certain authorities and improve prosecution”, warned the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in 2023 (2).…

TÜRKIYE DAIRY PRODUCTION FALLS AS INDUSTRY STRUGGLES WITH INFLATION AND DEPRECIATING LIRA

27th Feb 2025

Türkiye is one of the top 10 milk producers worldwide, according to the Turkish National Dairy Council (Ulusal Süt Konseyi - USK) but the country’s dairy sector has been impacted over the past two years by high inflation and the depreciation of the Turkish lira (1). Production is slowly rebounding, with demand driven by the country’s growing population and new export markets.

“Until the Covid pandemic the dairy sector was growing really well, then it started to decrease due to inflation and other issues, and has not really recovered,” said Shirley Kaston, co-founder of the Kök Projekt, a food start-up accelerator and consultancy in Istanbul.

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ASIAN PAINT REGULATORY ROUND UP – INDONESIAN EXTERIOR PAINT STILL USES LEAD, WARNS WORLD BANK

25th Nov 2024

A World Bank study released in October revealed that 58% of Indonesian households with visible interior paint still use products containing lead, posing significant health risks, especially to children under five. An estimated 10.2 million young Indonesian children live in homes with lead-based paint, with 14% of them at heightened risk from deteriorating paint conditions, according to the report.

It said 77% of popular paint brands on sale in Indonesia exceed safe lead levels, contributing to long-term health issues such as reduced IQ, neurological disorders, and cardiovascular problems.

The country’s industry ministry denied the report’s claims, stating that Indonesia’s decorative paints meet national standards, which limit lead content to below 90 parts per million (ppm), in line with World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations.

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CHEMICAL REGULATION DILEMMA FOR NEW UK GOVERNMENT

21st Oct 2024

The election of a new Labour government in the UK comes at a critical time for chemical regulation in Great Britain (GB) – and hence textile-finishing materials. Public consultation is currently underway on potential changes to how GB (not Northern Ireland) regulates its chemical industry and market.

When the UK left the European Union (EU) on 1 January 2021, it also left the EU’s comprehensive REACH chemical control system, which was formally replaced by a UK REACH system. This mirrored EU REACH, grandfathering existing registrations and restrictions to the national system, although GB companies lost access to EU databases run by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).…

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ASIAN PAINT REGULATORY ROUND UP – VIETNAM EXPANDS IMPORT SAFETY CONTROLS TO ALL CHEMICAL INPUTS

21st May 2024

Vietnam’s ministry of industry and trade (MOIT) has released a draft amendment to the country’s Law on Chemicals. The draft amendment stipulates that all chemicals, including paint and coating ingredients, must be declared when imported through Vietnam’s National Single Window Information Portal.

Under current regulations, only certain chemicals must be declared when imported, leading to the possibility of many dangerous and toxic chemicals imported into Vietnam. The MOIT explained that this weakness was especially relevant for new chemicals imported into Vietnam for the first time, impeding the government’s ability to update the list of chemicals that must be declared, hindering the identification of new chemicals, needed to apply management and safety procedures.

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EUROPEAN METAL CAN SECTOR CALLS FOR STRONGER RECYCLING RULES IN REVISED EU PACKAGING AND WASTE RULES

5th Mar 2024

AMBITIOUS recycling measures in a proposed European Union (EU) packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR) are essential to boost packaging waste collection and achieve a true circular economy for packaging, EU can industry experts have told CanTech International.

Indeed, as EU ministers and MEPs negotiate the final legal text of these planned reforms, the CEO of industry association Metal Packaging Europe (MPE), Krassimira Kazashka, said her group wants “EU legislators to provide for stronger recyclability measures and more pragmatic reuse requirements”.…

INDUSTRY LOSES HOPE FOR AN EU-MERCOSUR TRADE DEAL

5th Feb 2024

The garment and textile industries in the European Union (EU) and the Mercosur region of South America (Southern Common Market, in the Spanish initials) are losing hope after 25 years of negotiations to finalise a long-touted trade agreement.

Often, when both sides thought a deal was almost reached, there has been a setback for a deal that would link the 27 EU member states with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.…

GLOBAL CORRUPTION LEVELS REMAIN HIGH, WITH CLEAN-UP EFFORTS STAGNATING SAYS TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL CORRUPTION LEVELS REMAIN HIGH, WITH CLEAN-UP EFFORTS STAGNATING SAYS TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL

5th Feb 2024

Transparency International’s 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) (1) released on Tuesday (January 30) has concluded 122 of 180 countries worldwide scored below 50 on perceived levels of public sector corruption from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). This number shows how “corruption levels remain stagnant globally” – as the same number was reported last year (2022).…

SUEZ/RED SEA CRISIS CAUSING DISRUPTION TO CLOTHING TRADE AND MAY PROMPT SOURCING SHIFTS

31st Jan 2024

Disruptions to the supply chain in the Red Sea are driving up shipping costs for the clothing and textile sector, causing alternative routes to be used, and may result in longer-term shifts in sourcing as well as logistics, if the crisis continues.…

BANGLADESH DEVELOPS CHEESE INDUSTRY AND MARKET – BASED ON 300- YEAR-OLD TRADITIONS