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ANDHRA PRADESH
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INDIAN state government of Andhra Pradesh has been pressing the country’s industrial giants Tata and M.L.Dalmiya & Co to invest in the local leather industry, notably developing a Leather Export Park to mirror the success of the 1,000 acre Calcutta Leather Complex.…
US-EGYPT - WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has requested formal consultations with Egypt at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over duties imposed by Cairo on some clothing and textile products in December 2001, the first stage of formal disputes proceedings. The row is over promises made in the WTO’s 1990’s Uruguay Round, where Egypt agreed to remove a general ban on the importation of apparel and made?up…
CUBA - CROCODILES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CUBA has asked the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to relax a ban on trading its American Crocodile population, which offers commercial quality leather hides. American Crocodile skin leather is high quality, pliable, and decorative.…
BELARUS DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved extending an existing textile trade deal with Belarus for another year from January 1. Quota limits have been adjusted to take annual growth rates into account and also the effect of the enlargement of the EU this May.…
EP SUPPORT BRUSSELS PLAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has given its support to the European Commission action plan to help the EU textile industry cope with the worldwide 2005 abolition of trade quotas. However, worried about a flood of developing country imports, MEPs called on the Commission to reform the EU’s legislative “commercial defence mechanisms to make them more flexible and effective”.…
INDIAN BED-LINEN REVISITED
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission seems determined to have the last word in its interminable row with India over cotton-type bed linen protection. Having abandoned its long attempt to impose anti-dumping duties, the Commission has now asked EU ministers to erect countervailing duties on these products, designed to compensate EU producers for alleged illegal Indian government subsidies.…
RENEWABLE RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Renewable Energy Centres Agency (EUREC) has called for more funding for green energy research, claiming that via up from investment, the industry would be able to improve efficiencies and become more profitable. The agency – a specialist non-governmental organisation – wants to research spending on renewable energy production increased 10 times.…
STATOIL RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has developed plans to lend Norway’s Statoil Euro 200 million to help it develop the North Sea Ormen Lange gas field as a key supplier of natural gas to Britain, which should become a net importer of natural gas from 2007.…
NUCLEAR ENRICHMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is investigating a proposed deal effectively allying the European Union’s (EU) two companies enriching uranium for the nuclear industry. Brussels fears the purchase by France’s Areva of a 50 per cent stake in the Enrichment Technology Company from German-Dutch-British Urenco could cut competition and raise nuclear fuel prices, given enrichment represents about 35 per cent of fuel production costs and seven per cent for nuclear electricity generally.…
ECJ WASTE CASES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Commission is taking legal action against the UK, France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Luxembourg for failing to comply with EU laws on general waste management, hazardous waste, waste oils, landfills and the hazardous chemicals PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls).…