INB 2

FCA bulletin 79 for Saturday October 25

The FCA bulletin 79 for Saturday October 25 is available (pdf format) on their site.
Page 1: Full steam ahead
Page 2: The task for COP3
Page 3: Building an illicit tobacco trade protocol within the existing system of criminal justice, by Pr Neil Boister (School of Law, University of Canterbury, NZ)
Page 4: Usage de synonyme  dans le trafic illicite de tabac: Mekako, savon ou cigarettes?  par Patrick Musavuli
Page 5: Combating smuggling by controlling the supply chain, the case of Italy, by Luk Joossens and Martin Raw
See Progress in combating tobacco smuggling in Tobacco Control Journal (pdf) september 2008
Page 6: Free Trade Zones (FTZs): economic boon or haven for fraud, by John Colledge III

Picture from the blog of Patrick Musavuli

FCA bulletin 78 for Friday October 24

The FCA bulletin 78 for Friday October 24 is available (pdf  format) on their site.
Page 1: Where do we go from here?
Page 2: Progress in tobacco control in Nepal ; Singapore to require tax marking directly on cigarettes
Page 3: Spotlight on smuggling: Vietnam
Page 4: The situation in Argentina (in Spanish)
Page 5:  Réglementer la vente de cigarettes sur internet ne suffit pas: il faut l'interdire.
Page 6: Tobacco company campaigns to address illicit trade: hot air, little effet.
The case in Malaysia by Mary Assunta.

FCA Bulletin 77 for Thursday October 23

The FCA Bulletin 77 is available (pdf format) on the FCA site.

Page 1: Co-ordination with other agencies needed, by Jonathan Liberman

Page 2: Smuggling tobacco leaf: tobacco leaf and machinery used in manufacture must be included in the treaty, by Yussuf Saloojee and  John W Colledge III.

See 'Smuggling tobacco leaf in Malawi".

Page 3: Spotlight on smuggling: Lebanon

See "Smuggling as a key to a combined market: BAT in Lebanon" in Tobacco Control Journal.

Page 4:  Il faut interdire la vente des produits du tabac duty-free. (Version française du texte de Rob Cunningham publié en anglais dans le bulletin 74 de lundi)

Page 5: UK death toll from illicit tobacco higher than from illegal drugs, by Deborah Arnott (see report)

Page 6: What about the global financial crisis, by Joy Townsend

see 'Why combating tobacco smuggling is a priority".

The picture is from Marty Otanez blog Sidewalkradio, devoted to exploited tobacco farmers (here from Malawi)

FCA Bulletin 76 for Wednesday October 22

The FCA Bulletin 76 is available on pdf format on the FCA site.

Page 1: Key points for today's negotiations, by Jonathan Liberman

Page 2: Canada takes on illicit tobacco and organized crime, by Andrew Kerr

Page 3: Spotlight on smuggling: China

See "Key to the future: BAT and cigarette smuggling in China"

Page 4: NGOs mobilize in resistance to tobacco transnationals

See Network for Accountability for Tobacco Transnationals (NATT)

Page 5: Resources of effective protocol, by Deborah Arnott

Page 6: Thoughts on tracking and tracing, by John W Colledge III. On the public integrity site you can listen to several audio segments by John (mp3 format).

Image: one of the graphic warnings introduced in Australia in 2006

FCA bulletin 75 for Tuesday October 21

They have worked hard to produce this bulletin 75 (pdf format) posted at midnight on the FCA site.

Page 1: Time to move forward by Jonathan Liberman

Page 2: Spotlight on smuggling in Africa, reports about the article published in Tobacco Control Journal by Eric LeGresley whom we cyberinterviewed here.

Page 3: WTO: not a reason to not banning internet sales, by Benn McGrady.
Benn recently submitted a PhD thesis (under examination) at Monash University in Melbourne, titled ‘Trade and Tobacco Control: The World Trade Organization and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’.

Page 4: Addressing counterfeit in an illicit trade protocol, by Benn McGrady

Page 5: Le tabac et le terrorisme, version française de l'article d'Andrew Kerr publié hier en anglais.

Page 6: Dirty Ashtray and Orchid Award? Find the winners below.

FCA bulletin 74 for monday October 20

The FCA published the bulletin 74 for the first day of INB2.
It is available on a pdf format on its site.
On pages 1 and 2 FCA Policy Director Jonathan Liberman explains that 'Tough talks start now".
On page 3 Eric LeGresley, puts the "Spotlight on smuggling: dealing with a recalcitrant industry".
Page 4:  Tobacco and Terror by Andrew Kerr
Page 5: Ban on duty free tobacco sales needed by Rob Cunningham.
Page 6: FCA efforts to support tobacco control.

A message from the Framework Convention Alliance (FCA): Nations meet to give strength to global treaty to combat illicit tobacco trade

On October 20, government representatives will meet to negotiate a protocol which recognizes the serious threat posed to public health by the illicit trade in tobacco products – primarily through the undermining of tax policy – and the cross-border nature of illicit trade, which means that no state can effectively address the problem on its own.

Source: the FCA website