Search Results for: World Trade Organisation

Keith Nuthall
CHINA has sought to bury grumbling amongst its fellow World Trade Organisation member countries that it has been slow to implement promises made on joining the institution to liberalise its imports, by fulfilling a promise to publish quotas under its Agreement on Textiles and Clothing commitments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
STATE aid payments made to the aviation industry in Norway and Iceland, to enable companies to afford war insurance cover since the September 11 attacks, have been approved by the Surveillance Authority of the European Free Trade Area, (EFTA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PERU has won a disputes proceedings case at the World Trade Organisation against the European Union, which has been found unfairly blocking the sale of a Peruvian sardine – sardinops sagax sagax – as sardines, despite Codex Alimentarius standards allow allowing them to be marketed in this way.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Quebec City

BELUGA whales in Quebec’s St. Lawrence River have the highest cancer rates of any wild animal in the world, according to a researcher looking at 17 years of deaths among the white-backed cetaceans. Université de Montréal Professor Daniel Martineau studied carcasses of 129 belugas and, among his adult subjects, recorded a 27 per cent rate of cancer.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN oil companies have criticised a recently passed bill in the US Senate that would set a floor price for Alaska gas, which could spark a trade dispute between Canada and America. Ron Brenneman, CEO of Petro Canada said: “… that represents a form of subsidy for gas from one particular source in north America.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVERY minute of every day a million smokers light up a cigarette made by BAT and the company’s goal is that every one of them is perfect. How does BAT manage this, and at the same time meet its production, technical and environmental challenges when operations are on such a colossal scale ?…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
MACAO International Airport cargo volumes increased 40

percent year-on-year to 22,171 tons in the first quarter of 2002, while passenger numbers rose more than 15 percent to 953,097. Macao has been benefiting from its key position as a hub for traffic between mainland China and Taiwan, the Shipping & Trade News has reported.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation is about to embark on key discussions in its agriculture negotiations where diplomats will attempt to firm up broad proposals made last year, to allow detailed horse-trading to start next March. This month (June) discussions will focus on export subsidies and competition and in September on market access and domestic support.…

Keith Nuthall
THE NORWEGIAN government has moved to liberalise its alcohol retail system, following the order from the European Free Trade Area Court that it should scrap its discriminatory beer retail system, where the sale of brands of between 2.5% and 4.75% abv outside the state alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet is generally limited to domestically-produced lines.…

Keith Nuthall
AN ICELANDIC drinks importer could win compensation from the Iceland government, after the European Free Trade Area Court found that Reykjavik had broken the rules of the European Economic Area, (of which Iceland is a part), by maintaining its alcohol importation monopoly until December 1995.…