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COAL BOILERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Agenda for Action has been drawn up at a UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) workshop on boosting “Clean Coal Combustion in Small and Medium Sized Boilers in Central and Eastern Europe.” The plan has been approved by experts from the region, along with those from western Europe, the USA, the World Coal Institute, the World Energy Council, IEA Coal Research and UNECE.…
EU DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to impose definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain welded tubes and pipes, or iron or non-alloy steel from Czech Republic, Poland, Thailand, Turkey and the Ukraine. The proposal follows the imposition of provisional duties in March.…
CZECH DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CZECH Republic’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has launched an investigation, which is expected to lead it to imposing temporary safeguard duties on a range of flat non-alloy steel and iron products, as well as bars, rods, angles, shapes, tubes and pipes.…
FOREIGN TRADE CORPORATION DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has published a list of exported American metals and metal products that could be saddled with protective duties of up to 100 per cent, because of a World Trade Organisation ruling allowing Brussels to retaliate against the US’s use of foreign trade corporations to give its exporters illegal tax breaks.…
TEKSID TAKEOVER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted clearance, under the EU’s merger regulation, to the acquisition of full control by Questor Partners Bermuda, L.P., of the aluminium business of Italy’s Teksid S.p.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Italian auto giant Fiat.…
SA BALLAST
BY RICHARD HURST
TRADE and Investment South Africa Transport Industries – a Pretoria government unit – and the country’s Department of Trade and Industry have announced that they will jointly launch a council to seek export opportunities in the railway equipment market, notably crushed stone ballast.…
PADDY CLAY
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA and KEITH NUTHALL
CERAMIC manufacturers in Sri Lanka are seeking changes in national laws restricting the quarrying of paddy lands, because they contain premium deposits of kaolin. The country’s Ceramics Industry Task Force has asked its national government to revoke certain provisions of the Agrarian Development Act, which ban the mining of paddy lands, even if they are not being used for agriculture or have ceased to be viable for food production.…
TOBACCO DISPLAY CASE
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
SMALL-SHOP owners in Saskatchewan will be bound by the province’s Tobacco Control Act, which prohibits the display of cigarettes in retail outlets where they can be seen by under-18’s, after the collapse of a court challenge by a tobacco firm that argued the law is unconstitutional in Canada.…
HUMAN RIGHTS COURT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government has been censured by the European Court of Human Rights for failing to ensure the release of confidential social services information to a physical abuse victim, describing how he was ill-treated by his father as a child.…
RIGHT TO ROAM
BY MARK ROWE
WITH the Government’s right-to-roam soon allowing citizens to wander pretty much at will over the moors and hills, an ironic footnote is being added to the issue of greater access. The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest public access group, has been working with young offenders to clean up and fix broken and overgrown paths neglected by erring landowners and local councils.…