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The agreement is a significant addition to New Zealand’s network of double tax agreements with key trading partners and is potentially valuable to businesses and investors from both here and Hong Kong. According to FoodManufacture.co.uk, the hypothetical ruling from the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP) is significant, given that requests for rulings that yield a positive result usually lead to the licensing of foodstuffs for sale within the UK. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said its board will meet in December to discuss the committee’s conclusions, before advising ministers. A joint venture of US firm Parsons and France’s Systra has been awarded a project management consultancy contract for the network while Parsons Brinckerhoff, a unit of UK’s Balfour Beatty, was awarded a preliminary engineering contract for phases one and two of the project, Richard Bowker was quoted saying. Shanghai Port handled about 24 million TEU from January to October, surpassing Singapore to be the largest port in the world for three consecutive months in a raw, according to the Shipping Gazette citing figures from the Statistical Bureau of Shanghai. Quoting market experts at RTS resources, the report said the colours market is estimated to be worth USD $1.7 billion (NZD2.2 billion), with natural colours said to make up USD $0.65 billion.