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RULES OF ORIGIN
KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has delayed the establishment of a disputes panel at the WTO considering India’s complaint about American textile rules of origin. Washington opposed the move, forcing India to make a second application, which cannot be blocked.…
RULES OF ORIGIN
KEITH NUTHALL
TALKS held between the USA and India over a complaint regarding American rules of origin legislation have failed, with New Delhi formally requesting that a World Trade Organisation disputes panel is established to settle the row; the Indian government claims that they unfairly favour the US and European Union textile industries.New…
SOUTH AFRICA WOOL
BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
IN a move expected to modernise the sale and marketing of South African wool, the National Wool Growers Association of South Africa has announced that it will investigate adopting the New Zealand Product Advancement (PAC) wool classification system in the future.…
TMB MEETING
KEITH NUTHALL
JAPAN has been criticised by the Textile Monitoring Body of the World Trade Organisation for failing to establish new liberalised quotas for imports of Chinese silk yarn and fabric by the start of this financial year. In a paper issued at a recent meeting, the TMB said that it was “particularly concerned” at the omission, and said that in future it expected to be “informed by Japan as soon as possible on the timing of the annual consultations between Japan and China, as well as on the trade levels to be determined for both silk yarn and silk fabric for the Japanese fiscal year 2002.”…
BED LINEN AGAIN
KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA has formally requested the creation of a disputes panel at the World Trade Organisation, which is has asked to rule that the EU broke global trading rules when reimposing anti-dumping duties on Indian exports of cotton-type bed linen.…
NAMIBIA FACTORY
BY RICHARD HURST
P&O Nedlloyd has been appointed the preferred shipper for Malaysian garment company Rematex Berhad, which is building a $100 million clothing factory in Windhoek, Namibia. The logistics and container partner conveyed plant from Malaysia to Namibia last year in two block shipments and is currently delivering cotton consignments from west Africa.…
JRC DDG
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ROLAND Schenkel, the German former director of the European Union’s Joint Research Centre’s Karlsruhe institute has been appointed the organisation’s Deputy Director-General with special responsibility for nuclear studies and decommissioning.…
BELGIUM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BELGIAN power utilities Electrabel and SPE will continue to receive grants from their national government compensating them for having to help pay for dismantling installations at the Mol-Dessel experimental nuclear site, even though the country’s electricity system has been liberalised.…
ILLICIT TRFFICKING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
REPRESENTATIVES from the governments of Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Turkey have attended training courses staged by the EU’s Joint Research Centre, designed to improve their performance in combating the illicit trafficking of nuclear material.…
EXLON EXITS
BY RICHARD HURST
FOLLOWING the decision by US based energy group Exlon to abandon South Africa’s nuclear pebble bed modular reactor project, its remaining shareholders are reported to be seeking new partners. Exlon had a 12.5 per cent interest in the initiative.…