Search Results for: Poland

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has imposed anti-dumping duties on two (Polish and Ukraine) exporters of steel ropes and cables, backing European Commission claims they had broken undertakings made to legitimately avoid paying such tariffs. Poland’s Drumet and the Ukraine’s Silur will now pay anti-dumping duties of 27.9 per cent and 51.8 per cent respectively.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to impose anti-dumping duties on two (Polish and Ukraine) exporters of steel ropes and cables after the European Commission concluded that they had broken undertakings made to legitimately avoid paying such tariffs.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EASTERN and southern Europe countries slated to join the European Union (EU) on May 1, 2004, have worked small wonders in recent years to set up anti-money laundering regimes, not necessarily because they believe this is good in itself but partly at least because EU entry might not be possible otherwise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COUNTERFEITING is considered by many to be a victimless crime, the only losses being suffered by large trademark holders who have plenty of money anyway. The reality, of course, is quite different. Keith Nuthall reviews the latest international developments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Duke Energy Corp, a diversified US energy company based in Charlotte, is in discussions with “several potential buyers” for its European natural gas business, the company has announced. It gave no details of the possible buyers or price.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DEDICATED supplier distributor of electricity used by Poland’s national railway industry is likely to receive a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development loan to help it exploit the liberalisation of the Polish electricity industry. Bank officials are drawing up plans to lend Euro 15 million to PKP Energetyka, which it wants to spend on installing two control and metering centres.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FOR the non ferrous metals industries, the formal enlargement of the EU next May will not be an overnight sensation but rather the end of a ten-year process during which producers in eastern and central Europe have progressively adapted themselves to the western European model.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to officially sanction previously agreed trade concessions for Polish confectionary exporters, until the eastern European country becomes a Member State next year. The European Commission has proposed that concessions – widening low or zero-rated import quotas for many Polish confectionary products and ingredients or removing quantitative restrictions altogether – are written into the existing EU-Poland association agreement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NON-FERROUS metal producers in the existing 15 European Union (EU) countries could see some lowering of labour costs after enlargement of the EU next year as low-paid Polish and other workers move into the higher wage countries like Germany, according to industry sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CREATION of an international joint-venture, manufacturing oxo chemicals – which are a key ingredient of many paints, varnishes and plasticisers – has been agreed by the European Commission. It has approved the 50/50 initiative involving German chemical producers Celanese AG and Degussa AG; it will trade as European Oxo Chemicals (EOC).…