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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has raised concerns about bird flu spreading to Africa, where poverty is so rife and governments so weak, eradication would be practically impossible. With the disease spreading to Croatia from Turkey and Romania (and a quarantine outbreak in Britain), the FAO’s chief veterinary officer Joseph Domenech warned of the disease taking hold in sub-Saharan Africa.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States claims that it has won a World Trade Organisation (WTO) case against Mexico, with a disputes panel ruling a 20% tax on Mexican soft drinks manufactured with imported high-fructose corn syrup broke global commerce rules.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE
THE EGYPTIAN paint industry is in a state of flux after the sector was deregulated, with competition increasing both domestically and internationally, and long-term projections hampered by the government’s inability to decide on whether or not to cease subsidising turpentine supplies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ROLE of the Caribbean as a staging point for ill-gotten gains goes back to the trans-Atlantic misadventures of the first European ships over 400 years ago. It would appear some habits die hard. Wesley Gibbings reports from Port of Spain, Trinidad.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RELEASE of the main report of the Volcker inquiry into the United Nations’ oil for food scandal should strengthen reformers within the global body seeking tougher auditing controls. Controversial US ambassador John Bolton called for an expanded independent UN audit board role.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RELEASE of the main report of the Volcker inquiry into the United Nations’ oil for food scandal could strengthen reformers within the global body seeking tougher auditing controls and greater independence for its secretariat. It blamed administrative complexity involving shared powers over the Oil for Food Programme by the UN Security Council and its secretariat for creating a power vacuum, readily filled by Iraq’s former Saddam Hussein regime.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has expanded its low-duty special quota for raw cane sugar imports to 1.23 million metric tonnes for October 2005-September 2006, from 1.11 million metric tonnes the previous year. Key beneficiaries include the Dominican Republic 204,649 tonnes; Brazil 168,603; and Australia 96,511.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AFTER twenty years of haggling, a deal on wine has been reached by the European Union (EU) and the United States under which the EU will accept existing American wine-making practices such as adding malic acid to correct deficient acidity (common in California) and the use of oak wood chips during ageing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RELEASE of the main report of the Volcker inquiry into the United Nations’ oil for food scandal could strengthen reformers within the global body seeking tougher auditing controls and greater independence for its secretariat. New controversial US ambassador to the UN John Bolton said the report underlined the need for greater auditing and management controls, including by an independent audit board.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STEEP decline in sales of European Union (EU) finished leather to its number one market, the United States, has been highlighted by a comprehensive report on the global leather (and textile) market written for the European Commission.…