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BY MARK ROWE
MENTION Albania and money, and the image that comes to mind is of the extraordinary pyramid schemes that gripped the country in the mid-1990s as the country stepped out into a post-Stalinist dawn. Albanians poured their assets into the schemes, with an enthusiasm that was as remarkable as it was misguided.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representatives Office has been trying to play down the impact a new free trade deal with central American countries will have on US sugar producers. A briefing note however admits widened import quotas will equal 1.2 per cent of US production, rising to 1.7 per cent within 15 years, rising from 99,000 to 140,000 tonnes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-supported research scheme has developed practical guidelines on recycling waste from 19 food production processes. AWARENET worked out technical solutions for recycling its oils, sugars, vitamins, colorants and antioxidants. *http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=5059864&CFID=58430&CFTOKEN=21966306…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST Europe-wide register of industrial emissions into air and water has been launched by the European Environment Agency and the European Commission. This European Pollutant Emission Register is available on the Internet and contains detailed information on pollution from around 10,000 large industrial facilities in the European Union and Norway, including large pig and poultry farms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce is fighting a legal decision it fears could make United States courts de facto global anti-trust regulators, even in cases with a negligible impact on the USA. It has filed an amicus curiae brief to the US Supreme Court, asking it to overturn a DC Court of Appeals ruling allowing non-US plaintiffs to bring foreign anti-trust claims to American courts.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ABUSE of drugs and alcohol in the workplace may be a growing concern in European Union (EU) countries but there seems little evidence that the relevant authorities are unduly alarmed by it. An informal survey by Occupational Health of organisations and government departments suggests that little attempt has been made so far to assess the scale of the problem, still less to devise legislation aimed at workers, as distinct from society in general.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AUSTRALIAN aluminium industry will be a key beneficiary of a new free trade deal between its government and the USA that removes all tariffs on metals traded between the two countries, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT will be several years before Canada’s trading partners admit Canadian live cattle, according to a report from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The document – written after BSE was detected Alberta, but before its discovery in the United States – suggests that effective diplomacy will be needed to convince countries, rather than more scientific measures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE KUWAIT, Yemen and United States governments have signed two trade and investment deals promoting oil commerce, notably Kuwaiti and Yemeni crude and petroleum product exports to the US and American oil extraction and transport equipment to Yemen and Kuwait.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representatives Office has been trying to play down the impact a new free trade deal with central American countries will have on US sugar producers. A briefing note however admits widened import quotas will equal 1.2 per cent of US production, rising to 1.7 per cent within 15 years, rising from 99,000 to 140,000 tonnes.…