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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
RETALIATORY duties hitting shoe and fashion accessory imports from the United States may be postponed or never imposed because of concessions made by the US regarding controversial steel safeguard duties that provoked the European Union into planning reprisals.…

BY PHILIP FINE

ONE of the United States’ largest chicken processors has settled a class-action lawsuit and will now compensate its workers for time spent, unpaid, preparing and cleaning up for their work-shifts. In a case likely to be watched by British trades unions and law firms, Perdue Farms Inc.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States Environmental Protection Agency is expected to soon reclassify the fine powder that cement companies collect in their manufacturing process as a non-hazardous waste. It says it will temporarily suspend listing cement kiln dust (CKD) as a hazardous waste under federal environmental regulations, and will wait and see if state government regulatory programmes evolve over the next three to five years as a result.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS and international organisations have highlighted tobacco smuggling as one of the largest illegal drains on their tax revenues. An international conference has brought law enforcement professionals together with health officials to fight this problem. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND PHILIP FINE

IN the aftermath of the September 11 tragedy, the shocking images of two planes slamming into two of the most famous buildings in the world fuelled a strong desire tighten up security systems around the world, especially in civil aviation.…

Keith Nuthall
TIME was that the dredging and marine mineral extraction industry was lightly regulated, even in oceans teeming with life companies could plunder the seabed for materials and aggregates without serious hindrance. But now regulators have their fingers on everything, they are even thinking about rules for grabbing manganese nodules from the beds of deep oceans, a job that no company is anywhere near being able to undertake.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIALIST United Nations agency has admitted that unless careful precautions are taken, the future exploitation of mineral deposits on the bed of deep oceans could lead to the extinction of species, many of which have yet to be discovered.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE COCA-COLA Company has launched a chocolate-flavored dairy drink Nestlé Choglit; it’s Coke’s first entry into the milk-based beverage segment in the United States and is being rolled out initially in the north-east and south-east of the country.…

BY PHILIP FINE

The US Justice Department, on behalf of the country’s Internal Revenue Service, has filed suit against the US member companies of KPMG and BDO International. It says the accounting firms failed to provide the government with key tax shelter information.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
EASTERN European countries that built nuclear power plants while under the communist system never thought they would face deadlines for closing them down as a prerequisite for joining the European Union. Neither had they built in the next stage – decommissioning – into the prices charged for electricity in the way that the western European nuclear plant operators had done from the start.…