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KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s general council has been asked to approve a series of global trading regulations stating whether a textile manufacturing process is important enough for the processed fabric to legally be considered a new product, made in the country of manufacture rather then where the raw material was sourced.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN clothing manufacturers are lamenting amendments passed to the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act by US House of Representatives to clarify the definition of US fabric bought by Caribbean clothing manufacturers wishing to take advantage of the law’s preferential trade terms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s general council has been asked to approve global trading laws stating that fresh, slaughtered and butchered meat would legally be considered a product of the country where livestock is processed, not where it was reared.…

Keith Nuthall
COTTON producers in developing countries face annual losses of some US$9.5 billion because of subsidies benefiting rich countries, according to a new report released this week at the World Bank. The world cotton industry is slumping, with average prices hitting a 30-year low of 42 cents (US$) per pound, halving the incomes of many developing country cotton producers, says the study, Production and Trade Policies Affecting the Cotton Industry, by the International Cotton Advisory Committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MOVE to liberalise the global trade in artificially propagated orchids has been made by the USA, which has formally proposed that six species are exempted from controls under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and PHILIP FINE

ALTHOUGH the US knitwear lobby is breathing a sigh of relief over the recently delayed European Union tariffs on knitted 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
EUROPEAN Commission energy officials have welcomed a recent joint declaration on natural gas by presidents Putin, of Russia, and Kuchma, of the Ukraine, as a “vital first step” in agreeing funnelling investment into improving the legal, safety and technical aspects of transporting Russian natural gas to the EU.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has released a draft treaty text providing the basis for the final stage of the negotiations of a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Assembled by WHO Brazilian Ambassador Luiz Felipe de Seixas Correa, Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body on the convention, it highlights areas of potential agreement on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, black-marketeering, taxes, and international cooperation in agricultural diversification and financial resources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL initiative to cleanse the polluted Barents Sea of nuclear waste has been launched, with Euro 110 million being pledged by Russia, the European Commission, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The Barents clean-up will be the first priority project of this Support Fund of the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership; the sea, to the north of Russia and Norway, is commonly known as the largest repository of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste in the world.…