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RUSSIA READIES POTENTIAL BAN ON IMPORTS OF EU AND US CLOTHING
Russia may ban imports of clothing from the European Union (EU) and the United States if western countries implement a new package of sanctions against Russia, Andrei Belousov, an aide to President Vladimir Putin told just-style.
“We have a number of non-agricultural products, where our European partners are more dependent on Russia than Russia on them.…
EU-CANADA TRADE DEAL WELCOMED IN EUROPE PHARMA SECTOR, BUT PROMPTS CONCERN IN CANADA
Pharmaceuticals are at the heart of the ambitious trade agreement whose final details have just been agreed between the European Union (EU) and Canada, with both sides agreeing that it will improve market access and facilitate innovation for drug companies on both sides of the Atlantic.…
PAKISTANI FOOD COMPANY AND NGO TEAM UP TO IMPROVE SLAUGHTERHOUSE STANDARDS
A COLLABORATION between a major Pakistan food company and local non-governmental organisation (NGO) aimed at improving the country’s slaughterhouse standards is set to expand sales abroad.
Pakistan’s Al-Khidmat Foundation, a conservative social welfare organisation, has so far contributed USD2.9 million to maintaining a Karachi slaughterhouse facility run by Tata Best Foods Ltd that complies with international food safety standards.…
BULK OF US BEEF INDUSTRY LEVY INVESTMENT IN 2015 TO PROMOTE DOMESTIC BEEF SALES
THE CATTLEMEN’S Beef Promotion and Research Board in the USA will spend USD10.5 million of its USD39 million investments planned for the fiscal year of October 1, 2014-2015 to promote beef sales in its domestic market.
The goal of this consumer information campaign is to “improve domestic preference for beef by educating consumers about things like beef safety, nutrition and health, convenience, taste and value,” the board’s communications manager Diane Henderson told globalmeatnews.com.…
OECD TAX BURDENS CONTINUE TO RISE
THE AVERAGE tax burden in the developed countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) have continued to rise, up 0.4% in 2013, to 34.1% of GDP, compared with 33.7% in 2012 and 33.3% in 2011. A new OECD report said the largest 2013 increases were in Portugal, Turkey, Slovakia, Finland, and Denmark, which has the highest tax-to-GDP ratio among OECD countries – 48.6%, followed by France, 45%, and Belgium, 44.6%.…
USD 1 MILLION BOOST TO INCREASE ARMENIA’S TEXTILE AND GARMENT MARKET SHARE
ARMENIA is trying to increase its garment and textile market share locally and internationally, with the Russian government trying to help with a USD1 million grant. This will fund a project ‘Improving Competitiveness of Export-Oriented Industries in Armenia through Modernisation and Market Access’, which will be implemented by the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO).…
COTTON OF THE CAROLINAS’ GROWS STRENGTHENING RESHORING EFFORTS
COTTON of the Carolinas (CotC) – a collaboration of USA farmers and manufacturers dedicated to growing, making and selling custom printed t-shirts in North Carolina and South Carolina has gone from producing 15,000 t-shirts annually five years ago to 160,000 [annually] today, its co-founder Eric Henry told just-style.…
ICAO GLOBAL AVIATION COOPERATION SYMPOSIUM FEATURE COVERAGE
COUNTRIES lacking systems engineering capacity to boost their air traffic management by following international blueprints have been offered practical policy implementation kits by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
The launch was a highlight of ICAO’s first Global Aviation Cooperation Symposium (GACS), staged at its Montréal headquarters to assess synergies between technological developments across the civil aviation sector.…
DOUBTS LOOM LARGE ON BRAZIL’S USD 3 BILLION PLAN TO REVAMP 270 REGIONAL AIRPORTS
Two years ago Brazil was so worried that its main airports would not be ready for the 2014 World Cup that its government froze plans to build and renovate 270 airfields nationwide. Now that the football fiesta is over and the concessions running key hubs has delivered good results, South America’s powerhouse looked set to start focusing on airports and airfields in smaller cities, especially those that are not state capitals.…
COMPANIES OFFER NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING COMPLIANCE TECHNOLOGY
As anti-money laundering (AML) regulations become more complex and demanding, compliance technology and software providers are updating their solutions to screen more data, more efficiently, and present the results in a comprehensible way. Companies have been honing products to help clients switch to their software, dealing with problems such as incorporating old data from a legacy system; moving such data efficiently and accurately; and minimising errors by staff unused to the system.…