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US Senate Approves Nationwide Labeling Law for GMO Food Products
Jul 12, 2016The US Senate has approved a bill, which mandates nationwide labeling of food products containing genetically modified organisms (GMO). The bipartisan bill, which mandates GMO labeling contents with words, pictures or a bar code on the ...
Tags: GMO, food system
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General Mills Completes Sale Of Venezuelan Business To Lengfeld
Mar 22, 2016US-based food company General Mills has completed the sale of its Venezuela business to private investor Lengfeld, exiting from the country. The sale of the Venezuelan business includes brands such as Underwood, Rico Jam and ...
Tags: General Mills, Venezuela business, Lengfeld
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US Senate Stalls GMO Labeling Bill
Mar 18, 2016The US Senate has stalled a bill which would have eliminated state by state laws requiring food manufacturers to label products made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), ahead of Vermont’s law coming into effect from July. ...
Tags: US Senate, GMO, Food manufactures, Label products
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US Agriculture Committee Approves National Labeling Bill For Bioengineered Foods
Mar 8, 2016The US Senate Agricultural Committee has passed a bill which paves the way for a single national labeling law for food made with genetically engineered ingredients, while doing away with state by state labeling. With this bill, which ...
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US Lawmakers Express Concerns Over Ab InBev-SABMiller Merger
Dec 10, 2015Anheuser-Busch InBev faced some serious queries from the US lawmakers over its plan to acquire SABMiller. The lawmakers are concerned that deal could stifle the growing craft beer industry. The £71bn deal that was announced in ...
Tags: craft beer, caft beer industry
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USW Obiected to Lifting The Long-Standing Crude Oil Export Ban
Aug 3, 2015Leo W. Gerard, international president of the United Steelworkers (USW), has testified before the US Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, reiterating his opposition to lifting the long-standing crude oil export ban, ...
Tags: crude oil, export ban
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Seven Fashion and Retail Trade Organisations Have Called for Immediate Renewal of AGOA
May 20, 2015Seven fashion and retail trade organisations in the US and Africa, including the United States Fashion Industry Association (USFIA), have called for immediate renewal of the African Growth & Opportunity Act (AGOA), which is scheduled to ...
Tags: Fashion Industry, Apparel
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NCTO Has Commended The US Senate for Passing Two Important Pieces of Trade Legislation
May 18, 2015America’s National Council of Textile Organisations (NCTO) has commended the US Senate for passing two important pieces of trade legislation H.R. 1295 and H.R. 644, addressing trade preference programmes and customs enforcement. As ...
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Key OIA Trade Bills Have a New Prosess in US Senate
Apr 29, 2015The U.S. Senate Finance Committee passed legislation Wednesday evening that wlil give President Obama trade promotion authority, or TPA, a necessary step for his administration to conclude negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
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Child Resistant Packaging Bill Is Passed
Apr 24, 2015The North Carolina Senate has passed a bipartisan bill that would make child-resistant packaging and warning labels mandatory for liquids used with electronic-cigarette vaporizers. Once approved, the law that would be effective from 1 ...
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CIB:An Ongoing Countervailing Duty Investigation in The Us Against Turkish Rebar Imports
Apr 23, 2014Regarding announcement by the US Department of Commerce (DOC) of preliminary dumping margins of 0.00 percent and 2.64 percent, respectively, for Turkish rebar producers Habas Sinai ve Tibbi Gazlar Istihsal Endustrisi A.S. and Icdas Celik ...
Tags: Rebar Mills, Preliminary Margins
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Harry Reid Joined Representatives From The Moapa Band of Paiutes
Mar 25, 2014US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV) joined representatives from the Moapa Band of Paiutes, executives from cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic modules First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA and the Los Angeles Department of ...
Tags: Solar Thin-film photovoltaic CdTe, Electrical, Electronics, Solar
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US Senate Is Expected to Pass a New Five-Year Farm Bill
Feb 14, 2014The US Senate is expected to pass a new five-year farm bill today - a bill that does not make any changes to American country of origin meat labeling rules, also known as COOL. The House approved the $956 billion farm bill last week, ...
Tags: FOOD
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Defence Authorisation Bill Likely to Be Approved by The US Senate Later This Week
Dec 20, 2013The defence authorisation bill likely to be approved by the US Senate later this week does not include a controversial amendment requiring military branded garments sold at base retail stores to be sourced from signatories to the ...
Tags: Military Apparel, Apparel
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ICE Cotton Settled Slightly Lower This Week, Closing at 83.11 Basis Z3
Oct 21, 2013ICE cotton settled slightly lower this week, closing at 83.11 basis Z3. Growing cert stocks and lower YoY Chinese cotton imports in September prompted bearish headlines that, along with sagging technicals and ideas that the US crop may be ...