Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA Turkey has protested to the WTO about the Philippines extending its antidumping duties on Turkish flour. The Philippines intends to extend the duty by three years. It is interesting to note that, even with the antidumping duty, Turkey is still the largest supplier of wheat flour to the country with just over 44 percent of all wheat flour imports. The current rate of duty for Turkish wheat flour can be as high as 29.57 percent, covering 16 named Turkish exporters. Wheat prices are expected to stay strong in coming weeks as major wheat importing countries (Turkey, Jordan, Tunisia, and Egypt) seem to be buying larger than normal quantities of wheat and are building much larger th...
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An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
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