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BY KEITH NUTHALL
Coils, hot-rolled, pickled, classified under tariff heading 7208.2600; 2) Coils, hot-rolled, pickled, classified under tariff heading 7208.2700, of a thickness of 1.8 mm or more and a width of 1070 mm or less; 3) Coils, hot-rolled, classified under tariff heading 7208.3600, of a thickness of up to 12 mm; 4) Coils, hot-rolled, classified under tariff heading 7208.3700, of a width of 1070 mm or less; 5) Coils and sheets, hot-rolled, classified under tariff headings 7208.3800 and 7208.5300, respectively; 6) Coils and sheets, hot-rolled, classified under tariff headings 7208.3900 and 7208.5400, respectively, of a thickness of 1.8 mm or more; 7) Coils and sheets, cold-rolled (cold-reduced), classified under tariff headings 7209.1600 and 7209.2600, respectively, of a thickness of up to 1.9 mm; 8) Coils and sheets, cold-rolled (cold-reduced), classified under tariff headings 7209.1700 and 7209.2700, respectively; 9) Coils and sheets, cold-rolled (cold-reduced), classified under tariff headings 7209.1800 and 7209.2800 respectively, of a thickness of 0.35 mm or more; 10) Flat-rolled products, plated or coated with tin, in coils or sheets, classified under tariff heading 7210.1200, of a thickness of between 0.18 mm and 0.35 mm; 11) Flat-rolled products, plated or coated with aluminium-zinc alloys, in coils or sheets, classified under tariff heading 7210.6100, of a thickness of between 0.35 mm and 0.80 mm and a width of 1000 mm or less; 12) Milling bars and rods, classified under tariff heading 7228.3000, measuring between 25.4 mm and 101.6 mm in diameter; 13) Concrete-reinforcing bars and rods, classified under tariff headings 7213.1000 and 7214.2000 respectively, measuring between 8 mm and 36 mm in diameter; 14) Bars and rods, classified under tariff headings 7213.9110, 7213.9120 and 7213.9190, measuring 5.5 mm or more in diameter; 15) Bars and rods of rectangular (other than square) cross-section, classified under tariff heading 7214.9100, of a thickness of between 3 mm and 12 mm; 16) Other bars and rods other than of rectangular cross-section, classified under tariff heading 7214.9900: of circular cross-section, measuring between 6 mm and 38 mm in diameter; of square cross-section, with sides measuring between 10 mm and 25 mm; of hexagonal cross-section, the distance between the faces measuring from 19 mm to 31.8 mm; bars and rods with concave grooves in the faces and rounded edges (“star-shaped” cross-section) and sides measuring between 10.5 mm and 12.5 mm; 17) L sections, classified under tariff heading 7216.2100, of a height of between 20 mm and 65 mm; and 18) L sections, classified under tariff heading 7216.4000, of a height of 80 mm.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a scheme to set up a new company specialising in the processing of hot-rolled flat steel products in the Netherlands.

The new venture to be know as Metalix, has been formed by IHC (a subsidiary of the IHC Caland Group) and ODS (a subsidiary of Klöckner & Co.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN consumers still lack the confidence to buy in countries other than their own, in spite of all the efforts made to open up the internal market, the European Commission reports. A special survey by the Commission shows that only 31 per cent of consumers think their rights are well protected when they shop cross-border in the EU, against 56 per cent who feel well protected in their own country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government will have to defend itself at the European Court of Justice against claims by the European Commission that it has broken European Union law over tough personnel regulations, restricting the employment of special needs teachers from other EU Member States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank is to extend for another five years a stipend scheme that has successfully encouraged poor and rural families in Bangladesh to send their girls to secondary schools that were until recently predominantly male.

Working with the country’s directorate of secondary and higher education, which operates the programme, the bank is to loan Dhaka US$120.9 million interest free.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government will have to defend itself at the European Court of Justice against claims by the European Commission that it has broken European Union law over tough personnel regulations, restricting the employment of qualified social care workers from other EU Member States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW fast-track system for updating guidelines on the training that must be undertaken by foreign nurses from other European Union Member States, if they want their qualifications recognised in Britain, has been proposed by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have approved a new ‘solvency margin’ directive that boosts by 50 per cent the minimum financial reserves that must be retained by EU-registered insurance companies writing aviation industry policies, which Brussels deems “a particularly volatile risk.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA’S new Transportation Security Administration has taken over responsibility for aviation industry security in the country’s airports, from private companies and the Federal Aviation Administration. The aim is to boost the quality of security staff, by ensuring they are better trained and paid as public employees than their independent security company predecessors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has developed plans to lend Euro 25 million to Croatian air navigation services provider Croatia Control Ltd. The money would pay for the renewal of Zagreb Area Control Centre, replacing old equipment and allowing the country to cope with an expected future increase in air traffic.…