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COAL COMBUSTORS
BY PHILIP FINE
TWO new coal combustor technologies are being developed that could lower
nitrogen oxide (Nox) emissions at a 25 per cent cost saving. Alstom Power
Inc. and Praxair Inc presented results from their pilot tests at a recent
conference on nitrogen oxide controls conducted by the US government’s
National Energy Technology Laboratory.…
US STEEL TARIFFS
BY KEITH NUTHALL and PHILIP FINE
ALTHOUGH the US knitwear lobby is breathing a sigh of relief over the recently delayed European Union tariffs on knitted textiles and clothing, it is warning that job losses would follow any final decision to go ahead with retaliation to the US steel safeguard duties.…
US FARM BILL
BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, MONICA DOBIE AND PHILIP FINE
IF there is one striking characteristic about Washington’s Bush Administration, it must be its almost unprecedented ability to infuriate the entire world with its unilateralism, especially its self-serving trade policies.
For years, the US government has actually played Mary Poppins on food production subsidies, claiming that its handouts do not encourage farmers to overproduce when prices are low.…
OBESITY ACT
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US Senate has introduced legislation to reduce obesity, particularly among American children and adolescents. If passed, the US$215 million Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Act would take on the ‘significant problems associated with obesity,’ mostly by funding measures to encourage better nutrition and more physical activity; this includes federal funding for research and information campaigns.…
CARIBBEAN AMENDMENTS
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICAN dyers and finishers are celebrating after the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act was amended by US House of Representatives to clarify the definition of US fabric bought by Caribbean clothing manufacturers wishing to take advantage of the law’s preferential trade terms.…
KPMG CASE
BY PHILIP FINE
The US Justice Department, on behalf of the country’s Internal Revenue Service, has filed suit against the US member companies of KPMG and BDO International. It says the accounting firms failed to provide the government with key tax shelter information.…
STEEL DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has postponed for two months the implementation of duties retaliating against the US’ controversial safeguard duties on steel. Ministers will now decide on September 30 whether to install the duties, after Washington removed some steel tariffs.…
RULES OF ORIGIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s general council has been asked to approve global trading laws stating that unbleached or pre-bleached fabrics must be subject to permanent dying or printing, with at least two preparatory or finishing operations, to be considered a new product under global rules of origin legislation.…
US STEEL DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STAY of execution has been granted to American knitwear exporters, after the European Union Council of Ministers decided it would postpone the implementation of a first round of protective duties, erected in retaliation to the US’ controversial safeguard duties on steel.…
RULES OF ORIGIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s general council has been asked to approve global trading regulations stating that where shapes and parts previously knitted or crocheted into shape are assembled into clothing, they should generally be considered a new product.…