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...“After five years of R&D, we filed Algae Black under the International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients,” says Bowker....
...As the WTO director-general reported to ambassadors recently, the number of trade restrictions remains at a high level but more liberalising than restricting measures are being added....
...The brand has always eschewed traditional beauty marketing – such as print media advertising and paid ambassadors – instead orchestrating in-store installations and seasonal displays....
...In that case we’d have been having an even feistier debate about local content provisions and the US trying to nab electric vehicle investment from Europe and Asia....
...“We would call these criteria for rejection, not for approval,” said Alan Kartashkin, a partner at the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton....
...You also heard there from Nikki Haley, who was the UN ambassador during the Trump administration. Before that, she was the governor of South Carolina....
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...The joint statement after the meeting from the US is here, and the EU version here if you’d like exactly the same thing only with the Europeans’ names put first....
...Okonjo-Iweala told ambassadors in Geneva last week: “This ministerial level [meeting] is an effort to try something new....
...People remember the Thatcher party in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, but Toby’s 21st birthday party a few chapters earlier is the better one: inner sanctum, intimidating element (when Nick wanders...
...We’d say so....
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...week there was an impasse over which of Mr Azevêdo’s four deputies might become interim director-general when he leaves, after China blocked a US attempt to appoint the American deputy director-general, Alan...
...He’s already been around the global governance biz a bit, and we’d definitely buy futures in Ulianovschis if we could. Did anything happen last week to change a lot of minds? Probably not....
...Obviously Alan Bennett’s parody-able, but I admire Alan Bennett . . . You have to have some prickle in you to get going.” This makes it worse, I say: now subjects know you dislike them....
...As Alan Beattie quipped, the UK’s move is less Singapore, and more Ottawa-on-Thames....
...Along with Robert Zoellick, his kindred spirit number at USTR, he’d been instrumental in launching the Doha round....
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...“The United States has . . . articulate[d] our longstanding concerns with the functioning of the appellate body,” Mr Shea said. “We have yet to see the same level of engagement from other members.”...
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