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US SECURITY
BY PHILIP FINE
THE COST of improving America’s post-September 11 airport security may top US$6 billion, more than triple what has been budgeted. The Bush administration will ask Congress for an additional US$4.4 billion for the new Transportation Security Administration, created after 9-11, citing greater manpower needs, more expensive bomb detection equipment at airports and other factors.…
EU -ARGENTINA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to grant Argentina some leeway over its dismantling of controls on the export of its bovine hides and the import of finished leather, as required by a World Trade Organisation disputes panel ruling, which went against Buenos Aires.…
US TARIFFS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SHOE and fashion accessory imports from the United States are to be a focus of retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union because of the erection of controversial ‘safeguard’ duties by Washington to protect the American steel industry.…
US TARIFFS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
KNITTED clothing and accessory imports from the United States are to be a key focus of retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union, following the erection of controversial ‘safeguard’ duties by Washington to protect the American steel industry.…
CHINA ATC IMPLEMENTATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has sought to bury grumbling amongst its fellow World Trade Organisation member countries that it has been slow to implement pledges to liberalise quotas, by delivering on its promise to publish import quotas in April that fulfill its commitments under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing and cover many knitted lines.…
EU -ARGENTINA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to grant Argentina some leeway over its dismantling of controls on the export of its bovine hides and the import of finished leather, as required by a World Trade Organisation disputes panel ruling, which went against Buenos Aires.…
UKRAINE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TENDERS have been invited by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to set up a combined heat and power plant at Voznesensk tannery, the Ukraine. Part-funded by the bank, it would be operated by the Ukrainian Energy Service Company (UkrESCO), and would command a total installed electric power of 1,9-2,2 MW, with two or more gas-fired piston engines equipped with a flue gas heat recovery system, producing hot water of up to 90?.…
KAZAKHSTAN
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is poised to release tenders for work in Kazakhstan, funded by a US$45 million loan, which will help pay for the modernisation of its electricity utility’s transmission management systems and communications networks.…
GUJURAT PLANT
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
COMPETITION is intensifying to supply the planned new 615 MW power plant in Saurashtra, Gujurat, India, with fuel. Gujarat State Petronet Ltd is about to submit a feasibility report on laying a IND Rupees 1,650 million, 65-km, sub-sea gas pipeline connecting the mid-Tapti fields with the Gujurati port of Pipavav.…
ECJ POLLUTION
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has found that Italy has breached the EU’s 1991 urban waste water directive by allowing discharges from the city of Milan to be released indirectly into environmentally sensitive areas without being subjected to specific treatment.…