Search Results for: World Trade Organisation

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE AVERAGE consumer that tucks into a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia or Chunky Monkey has no idea that this supposedly quaint, hippy-dippy company that started out of an old garage in the beautiful landscape of America’s Vermont Green Mountains, is really owned by the nemesis of such small companies – a faceless multinational – in this case, Unilever.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s general council has been asked to approve global trading laws stating that the drying of fish, fish livers, roes and fish fillets should legally be considered a product of the country where fish is processed, not where it was caught.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
COATINGS giant Asian Paints says that sales success has made it consider opening more of its Colour World units in Sri Lanka, eighteen months after it opened the retail chain on the island to coincide with its launch of its Apcolite emulsion.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
A CHILD sexual abuse case will focus attention on one of the world’s most remote and famous islands: Pitcairn – a tiny British colony between New Zealand and Chile – which was settled by the Bounty mutineers in 1790.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
SOUTH Africa is being warned that it needs to invest to take advantage of opportunities to boost clothing exports to the US under the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), which allows its clothes to be exported to the US duty free if manufactured from local materials.…

BY PHILIP FINE

ALTHOUGH the US textile lobby is breathing a sigh of relief over the recently delayed European Union tariffs textiles and clothing, it is warning that job losses would follow any final decision to go ahead with retaliation to the US steel safeguard duties.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a scheme for the development of the natural gas infrastructure in Northern Ireland that will mean supplies from the Republic of Ireland being pumped into the north for the first time. The Commission said that eventually the infrastructure may be extended to north-westerly regions of Ireland, such as Donegal, which are not currently served by natural gas and it therefore “takes a big step towards the development of an all-island natural gas infrastructure.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s general council has been asked to approve global trading laws stating that “the production of tablets, capsules, granules, or other administrable forms of medicaments, such as in diffusion, dissolution, osmotic and other systems,” should result in a legally defined new product being created.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s general council has been asked to approve global trading laws stating that unbleached or pre-bleached fabrics must be subject to permanent dying or printing, with at least two preparatory or finishing operations, to be considered a new product under global rules of origin legislation.…

Keith Nuthall
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s general council has been asked to approve global trading rules stating that instant coffee should generally be considered a product of the country where its coffee beans are grown, not where it is processed. The exception would be for blends where the dominant ingredient is less than 85 per cent of the whole, when the product would be considered from the country of manufacture.…