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A CENTRE-left Portuguese member of the European Parliament (MEP) Nuno Teixeira has raised concerns about the safety of Brazilian beef after learning that two shipments of Brazilian beef meat have been blocked in the port of Rotterdam after testing positive for the presence of Ecoli bacteria.…

EUROPEAN clothing suppliers flocked to this year’s Intertextile Beijing Apparel Fabrics 2013 show to explore China-based sales, but told just-style of concerns that excess domestic inventory might impede export sales in this key emerging market. This year’s show at the China International Exhibition Centre was notable for a year-on-year 36% rise in European exhibitors, including a similar expansion of companies exhibiting at the pavilion operated by Italian textile producer organisation Milano Unica.…

BRAZIL’S growing economy has given many Brazilian motorists purchasing power they have never had before. This – plus effective social welfare policies and an end to past hyper-inflation – has grown Brazil’s middle class, which is now about 54% of the 196 million population, according to the country’s presidential office for strategic affairs.…

MEMBERS of the European Parliament agriculture committee are worried about cuts made to the European Union (EU)’s rural development fund for the rest of the decade in the recent EU 2014-20 spending deal – warning it may especially hit farmers rearing livestock of sheep and goats in poor regions.…

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China has a booming e-commerce sector, and growing online drinks retailers are building more warehouses nationwide. They need to balance ‘just-in-case’ and ‘just-in-time’ demands and also the need for flexibility versus low inventory. Negotiating these logistical pressures is vital in this huge yet highly fragmented market.…

THE EUROPEAN Parliament called yesterday (Thurs) for the European Commission to stick to its guns in proposing that origin labelling for clothing and shoes made outside the European Union (EU) be made mandatory, after the EU executive threatened to withdraw a legislative proposal on the issue.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted legal protection to speciality Portuguese goat and sheep meat and a Slovene pork product. This prevents meat traders using their names in marketing unless these products are made in their home area by traditional production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PRESSURE is growing on European Union (EU) ministers to give the EU’s sugar production quota system a stay of execution. MEPs on the European Parliament’s agriculture committee have called for the retention of EU sugar quotas for beet farmers until 2020, rather than follow existing plans to phase them out in 2015.…

BY ROBERT STOKES, IN MALAGA

12 SEPTEMBER 2012

SPAIN’s ailing book industry has seen things go from bad to worse throughout 2012 as the country moved centre stage in the Eurozone crisis, government austerity measures hit hard, and unemployment hovered around 25%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) consumer safety alert network Rapex has warned that illegal hydroquinone content is continuing to be discovered in skin whitening products across Europe. Portuguese customs, for instance, seized Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)-manufactured Angel Cosmetics lightening beauty soap with carrot oil for containing the chemical, banned under the EU cosmetics directive.…