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CHINA DIVERTS TEXTILE EXPORTS TO EVADE 'BRA WARS' AGREEMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINESE exporters have been fraudulently routing clothing and textile exports via Hong Kong and South Korea to evade quota limits imposed last year, following the ‘bra wars’ spat with the European Union (EU). Swedish government figures claim Hong Kong clothing and textile exports to the EU rose by 234% in the past year, which would mean every Hong Konger was employed in the textile industry.…
SYRIA AUTO MARKET BOOMS AFTER DUTY CUTS
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Damascus
FOLLOWING a sizeable reduction in import duties last year, Syria’s fledgling car market has grown by up to 60% in under a year.
A mere decade ago Syria’s roads were full of ageing cars, such as 1950s and 1960s Chevrolets, Dodges and Plymouths that were either lovingly maintained or had had one paint job too many.…
AFRICA OIL GAS EXPLORATION RISKS FEATURE
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
SECURITY specialists and risk assessors will be increasingly in demand within oil majors seeking to tap sub-Saharan Africa’s oil and gas riches in the next few years, experts say, with available resources and political uncertainty growing in an uneasy parallel.…
NEW ZEALAND PACIFIC MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANISED CRIME RISK
BY SYMON ROSS, in Auckland
INTERNATIONAL law enforcement agencies acknowledge that the laundering of criminal proceeds generated by transnational crime remains a problem in the Pacific region despite increased legislation designed to curb the cleaning of dirty money.
With no Pacific countries now on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) blacklist of uncooperative territories, international monitors could be forgiven for focusing their attentions elsewhere.…
JAPAN MONEY LAUNDERING FEATURE
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
THE HEADLINES in the Japanese press in recent months are likely to have
piqued the interest of anyone looking for a destination where ill-gotten
gains can be made to appear legitimate, let alone the concern of global
money-laundering authorities.…
JAPAN MONEY LAUNDERING FEATURE
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
THE HEADLINES in the Japanese press in recent months are likely to have
piqued the interest of anyone looking for a destination where ill-gotten
gains can be made to appear legitimate, let alone the concern of global
money-laundering authorities.…
NON-METAL INDUSTRIAL MINERALS NANOTECHNOLOGY FEATURE
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
NON-metallic minerals, long considered the poor relations in the extended family of industrial minerals, are suddenly popular again.
They have found favour once more because of their molecular structures and their usefulness in the rapidly advancing world of nanotechnology.…
OECD TAX COMPARATIVE STUDY - BRITAIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S status as a low tax jurisdiction in the European Union (EU) has been reconfirmed in the latest comparative study of developed industrialised countries by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). For instance, looking at income tax and national insurance burdens for single people without children, Britain is taxed at 33.5% on average, compared with an old 15-member EU average of 42.1%.…
JAPAN SOUTH KOREA LAVER SEAWEED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
JAPAN and South Korea have struck a deal solving a long-running World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute over Japanese restrictions on imports of South Korean laver seaweed. Seoul has argued that Japan’s import quotas of this product break Tokyo’s WTO commitments under the 1994 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).…
NANOTECHNOLOGY INVENTIONS FEATURE - COSMETICS
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
IT might sound like science fiction but many of the most exciting and useful advances emerging from the super-science of nanotechnology are real. Nanotechnology is a relatively new approach that deals with understanding and applying the properties of matter at the nano-scale, where a small molecule measures one nano-metre (one billionth of metre) in length, or about 1/80,000 of the diameter of a human hair.…