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NEPAL/CAMBODIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUCCESSFUL negotiations between the European Commission and Nepal and Cambodia have led to an extension of existing textile trade agreements between these Asian kingdoms and the European Union (EU) until December 2004. These list products – including wool – that can be imported into the EU without quota limits.…
NAPPY RECYCLING
BY MONICA DOBIE
RECYCLED nappy materials collected from a pilot municipal programme in California are being used to manufacture shoe insoles. The project launched in Santa Clarita, is the first such scheme in the United States. The six-month endeavour will include 500 families, who volunteer their used nappies in marked bags that are collected weekly.…
RUSSIAN MIDDLE CLASSES
BY MARK ROWE
THE RUSSIAN footwear industry is enjoying a boom as a result of a rise in the disposable income of the country’s post-Soviet middle classes. Higher salaries coupled with low utility and housing costs have left 10 million Russians with money to spare and the footwear industry has been one of the beneficiaries.…
VENEZUELA DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
VENEZUELA’S Anti-Dumping and Safeguards Commission’s technical secretariat is to launch a formal investigation into a boom in footwear imports into its country, which are expected to lead to the erection of temporary safeguard duties to protect the local production industry.…
EU CONFERENCE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has organised a conference to discuss the consequences of the abolition of quotas under the WTO’s agreement on textile and clothing. This symposium – The Future of Textiles and Clothing Trade after 2005 – will be held in Brussels on May 5-6.…
CAMBODIA/NEPAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUCCESSFUL negotiations between the European Commission and the governments of Cambodia and Nepal have led to a deal over the extension of existing textile trade agreements between these Asian kingdoms and the European Union (EU). The Commission has asked European ministers to formally agree that these agreements should be prolonged until December 2004, appending a new list of textile products that can be imported into the EU without any quota limits.…
EU TARIFF SUSPENSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to suspend import tariffs on a number of textile products, because of concern that demand is outstripping supply in the EU. The removal of duties would be indefinite, although the European Commission will inevitably review these tariff breaks within a year; assuming they are approved, they will come into force on New Year’s Day.…
COTTON SEED OILS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that imports of two cottonseed oils manufactured from genetically modified cotton grown outside the European Union market are to be sold legally in the EU. They will be labelled as a GM foodstuff.…
SYNTHETIC FIBRE MERGER
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted regulatory clearance to a proposed
joint venture involving three Japanese companies active in the synthetic
fibre machinery sector: Toray, Murata and Teijin. The companies are to
combine their production facilities in the Japanese market.…
GREEK COTTON AID
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has infuriated the European Commission by unanimously authorising the Greek government to pay Euro 90 million in additional state aid to its cotton producers in 2001-2. Sweden, Denmark and Germany abstained on the vote by the EU agriculture council.…