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FLAT COLD ROLLED DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain flat rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more from Egypt, (mostly 29.2 per cent), Slovakia, (18.6 per cent) and Turkey, (11.5 per cent).…
GOLD - MONEY LAUNDERING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL trade in gold has “considerable vulnerability to being exploited for money laundering,” according to a report released by the world’s lead organisation in fighting the processing of dirty money, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). This wing of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has highlighted these problems in a recent report on Money Laundering Typologies.…
DAMAGED GOODS DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved European Commission proposals that anti-dumping duties levied on imports of ferro-silico-manganese from China and the Ukraine should be reduced when consignments of the metal have been damaged before being admitted into the European Union (EU).…
CARBON FACILITY DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRAZILIAN steel producer V&M do Brazil has struck the largest deal to date under the Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism. It will see the steel maker selling five million tonnes of greenhouse gas reductions for Euro 15 million to an International Finance Corporation/Dutch government fund, the IFC-Netherlands Carbon Facility.…
SOLUTIA DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition by Belgian pharmaceuticals and speciality chemicals firm UCB SA/NV of the resins, adhesives and additives businesses of US company Solutia Inc, following an investigation into the deal’s potential for damaging competition in Europe.…
CELANESE DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
REGULATORY approval for a proposed propylene-based oxo chemicals joint venture between German companies Celanese AG and Degussa AG could be held up by the European Commission, which has opened a detailed investigation into the deal. Both companies want to combine their production and sales activities regarding these chemicals, used as chemical intermediates, solvents and plasticisers.…
SAND DREDGERS
BY MARK ROWE
THREE Belgian-owned dredgers detained for nearly seven months by Indonesian authorities for alleged illegal sand mining in the Riau islands, south of Singapore, have finally been released. Dredging International – the owner of the Lange Wapper – and Jan de Nul – the owner of the Vasco da Gama and Alexander Von Humboldt – are understood to have agreed to pay fines demanded by Indonesian authorities for the release of their dredgers.…
WASTE EXTRACTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DISASTERS invariably spark reforms, especially when they are unprecedented. It was so with September 11, which has spun off a range of hitherto unimagined security precautions, and the same kind of safety-first reaction has followed recent oil tanker disasters such as the Prestige tragedy, off Spain.…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE’S Suez water company and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have launched a joint drinking water improvements programme that will provide around Euro 300,000 in its first three years and will initially concentrate on the Volga-Caspian region.…
JANES AIRPORT REVIEW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
Europe’s ambitious Galileo programme to establish a global satellite navigation system is clearly a project that likes to keep its supporters in a state of fairly constant nervous tension. At a cost of 3.2 billion euros, Galileo was never a sure-fire runner to begin with.…