EU REPORT WARNS ANTI-RECESSION POLICIES HAVE BOOSTED COSMETICS PROTECTIONISM
October 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission report has highlighted concerns about some steps taken by European Union (EU) trading partners to protect their personal care product sectors from the recession that could restrict EU exports. A key worry was Indonesia's draft regulation on cosmetics labelling and packaging that insists product information such as usage advice, product numbers and expiry dates be labelled in Indonesian. Another problem was Brazil's increase from 2 to 14% of import duties on lauryl and stearyl alcohol used in cosmetics production. Paraguay's ...
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