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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 KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel has told the United States it has until this December 17 to implement a previous ruling that it stages a new sunset review into renewing anti-dumping duties against Argentine exports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States’ honey bee population has been halved by the varroa mite, the US Department of Agriculture has warned, with the parasite developing resistance to miticide chemicals. In some regions, 70% of hives have been lost, said the ministry, with the west coast the hardest hit, devastating honey production and fruit pollination.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Russia have signed an agreement guaranteeing access to Russian markets by American poultry, beef and pork producers. It creates special tariff quotas for US exporters, with higher duties being levied on excess shipments. The deal also covers the allocation and distribution of import licences, plus sanitary issues.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has been told by a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel to review its re-imposition of anti-dumping duties on Mexican oil country tubular goods. Mexico had claimed that the USA erred in concluding during a 2000-2001 sunset review that without the duties, originally imposed in 1995, Mexican exporters would dump cut-priced cheap oil country tubular goods on the US market.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
Two new schemes aimed at resolving the differences between the European Union and the US over the posting of collateral by non-American re-insurers in the US market are to be considered by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) of the US at its summer meeting in Boston June 11-14th.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCIENTISTS from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in the United States have developed a industrially-usable manufacturing technique that takes the itch out of wool, makes it whiter and makes it shrink-proof. Its “biopolishing” process involves pre-treating wool with a stable, activated peroxide, which is followed by a treatment with either serine or cysteine protease cellular enzymes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BETTER efforts need to be made to ensure a “culture of safety” exists in nuclear power plants worldwide, a meeting of the parties to the United Nations Convention on Nuclear Safety has concluded. Debating the current problems the idea at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, the meeting noted “in some instances…safety culture in nuclear power plants should be strengthened as deficiencies were reported in areas of decision-making, even management and internal communications”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DISCUSSIONS between the European Union (EU) and the United States on the mutual recognition of insurance of commercial risks in both jurisdictions will start “in the near future”, a European Commission policy paper has claimed. ‘A stronger EU-US Partnership and a more open market for the 21st century’ also notes optimism that “solutions to remove collateral requirements for EU reinsurers doing business in the US should be found” by Brussels and Washington working together.…