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WTO ROUND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has set out its stall at the World Trade Organisation’s agricultural liberalisation talks, offering the US and other key trading partners the carrot of a 55 per cent cut in “trade distorting domestic farm support” subsidies, if they reciprocate with similar reductions.…
TURKEY v EGYPT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TURKISH and Ecuadorian governments have struck a deal to solve their dispute at the World Trade Organisation over Turkey’s import restrictions on Ecuador’s fruit exports.…
GM FOOD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has approved in principle new proposed European regulations on the traceability and labelling of genetically modified food.…
FISH PRICES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed modest increases in guide prices for white fish for 2003 of between 1 to 2.5%, higher increases for pelagic species (1 to 3%), except hake and swordfish (falling by 1 and 1.5% respectively), and no change or small reductions in prices for crustaceans.…
REFRACTARIOS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered Spain’s wage guarantee fund to recover Euro 545,000 in debt owed by specialist heat resistant ceramics manufacturer Refractarios Especiales S.A., after it concluded that an earlier waiving of this due payment was an illegal government grant.…
CHINA V CHINA - WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STAGE is being set at the World Trade Organisation for a formal dispute procedure over steel safeguard duties between two countries who do not formally recognise each other’s existence. The Peoples Republic of China and the Republic of China, (also known as Taiwan), are arguing over duties erected by Communist China.…
DOUBLE CHECKING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DOUBLE checking systems introduced by the European Union to police steel trade systems struck with eastern European countries who now want to become Member States are to be indefinitely extended. The European Commission has proposed that these monitoring systems be maintained in place to guard against illicit steel exports from the Czech Republic, Romania, Poland and Slovakia until they are finally accepted as formal members of the EU.…
INDIA WIRE DUTY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INDIAN producer of stainless steel wire is facing the reimposition of 55.6 per cent European Union anti-dumping duties, after it failed to cooperate with an investigation it had instigated, aimed at avoiding the tariff. Garg Sales Co.…
JAPAN HOT-ROLLED STEEL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DISPUTES Settlement Body (DSB) of the World Trade Organisation has extended the time for the United States to implement its rulings on the case involving antidumping measures on certain hot-rolled steel products from Japan, a move that has upset Tokyo.…
ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGREEMENT in principle has been secured at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over a proposed EU Regulation writing into European law the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) convention on the control of harmful anti-fouling systems on ships, (AFS Convention).…