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BY PHILIP FINE

US textile manufacturers are anxious to tell US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill how his department’s high dollar policy has contributed to devastating job losses for the country’s textile and apparel workers.

American Textile Manufacturers Institute spokesman, Cass Johnson, says his organisation would be attending O’Neill’s senate banking hearings on May 1st and will also lobby federal officials on how propping up US currency has translated into his sector losing 13 per cent of its workforce in one year.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN ENVIRONMENTAL group is taking the world’s largest poultry company to court for allegedly failing to take care of noxious releases on one of their contracted farms. The Sierra Club alleges that the US’s Kentucky-based Tyson Foods failed to report releases of ammonia on four large ‘chicken houses.’…

BY PHILIP FINE

CONAGRA Foods Inc is to sell its red-meat business in the United States and Australia, according to the US Cattle Buyers Weekly. The multinational, with sales of US$27 billion a year, will sell processing operations, cattle feeding operations and Australia Meat Holdings, says the newsletter.…

Keith Nuthall
AUTOMOBILE industry products and components from the United States will be a focus of retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union because of Washington’s controversial ‘safeguard’ duties protecting the American steel industry.

The European Commission has asked EU ministers to approve a selected range of products, where the levying of duty will cause pain to US exporters.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CANADA’S federal government will tighten regulations on Sport Utility Vehicles by changing their classification from trucks to cars to force manufacturers to abide by their tighter emissions laws, reducing pollution from SUV’s.

The move is part of an overhaul of Canadian maximum emission levels for oxides of nitrogen, which will see the ceilings for cars reduced from 0.3 grams per mile to between 0.07 grams per mile.…

BY MARK ROWE
A VIETNAMESE food processor has invented an odourless variety of fish sauce in attempt to crack the American market where the smell of fermented fish is disliked. The Hanh Phuc Food Processing Company in Ho Chi Minh City has already sold 100,000 bottles of odourless sauce worth US$50,000 to the United States.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE UNITED States faces another World Trade Organisation battle over tariffs, this time with Thailand over Washington’s intention to waive clothing duties on exports from South American countries. The Thai government has warned that its industries will suffer heavily if the US waives duties on garments and footwear exported from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AFTER pressure from the licensed beverage industry, America’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) has admitted it overestimated its figures on underage drinkers. CASA had released a report stating that underage people drink 25 percent of the beverage alcohol consumed in the United States.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
A PROGRAMME to strengthen commercial aviation security on a global scale, primarily through a mandatory audit of national services, has been agreed by all 187 Member States of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) at a two day High-Level, Ministerial Conference held at its headquarters in Montreal, Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
INTERNATIONAL airports across Canada will begin using iris scanners to speed up the security processing of passengers as early as this summer.

Toronto and Vancouver airports are expected to be the first to install the devices, in August; they would allow selected travellers to confirm their identities through a checkpoint scan within thirty seconds or less upon arrival at Canada Customs.…