This week five west African countries, Nigeria included, announced plans to end the practice of European oil companies and traders exporting "African quality" diesel.
Five west African countries have announced measures to end the practice of European oil companies and traders exporting "African quality" diesel – highly polluting fuels that could never be sold in Europe.
European traders exported varieties of sweet potato from Mexico and the Caribbean to the Pacific, and those breeds mixed with the older Polynesian varieties, obscuring their genetic history.
From the nearby harbor Sokhi Bandar -- the "Port of the Prosperous" -- traders exported silk, rice and wood.
The US, the world's largest arms trader, exported more than $14bn£9bnbn) worth of military equipment to developing countries in 2000.
It was precisely the difficulty of obtaining suitable furniture locally for their settlements that encouraged the European traders to export Western prototypes for copying.
Felling the three species concerned - ebony, rosewood and pallisander - is forbidden, but the government has issued permits cheaply for traders to export stockpiles, which led to further logging.
Worse, the EIC did not allow the British fur traders to export Chinese goods to Great Britain.
Their activities were reported to Kazembe III, the Lunda king on the Luapula, by Bisa traders who exported his ivory and copper to the Yao in Malawi.
Europe's highest court ruled on Tuesday that the European Commission was wrong to fine Bayer, the German drug maker, for restricting traders from exporting a prescription drug from Spain and France, where the price is low, to Britain, where it is 40percentt higher.
The company is the world's third-largest oil trader and exports about a third of Russia's seaborne oil.
