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INDIA/TURKEY LATEST
Keith Nuthall
FURTHER details have been released about the deal struck between India and Turkey to resolve the WTO dispute over Turkish restrictions on 19 categories of Indian textile exports. They include the immediate removal of some quantitative restrictions and the reduction of tariffs by September 30.…
SOUTHERN AFRICA
BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
THE SOUTH African government is considering a request from Zimbabwe and Mauritius to expedite the removal of tariffs on textiles and clothing imports from their countries. The existing agreement in the Southern African Development Community, (SADC), caters for the removal of such tariffs by the year 2006.…
BANANA DUTIES
Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States has lifted its retaliatory 100 per cent duties on EU exports of cotton bed linen, following the solution of the years-long row with the European Union over its import procedures for Caribbean bananas. The duties had been authorised by the WTO, which had concluded that the EU had broken global trading laws by offering preferential access to its markets to Caribbean bananas.…
EU-ESTONIA DEAL
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has approved a textiles trade agreement signed with Estonia, which will widen import quotas, especially for Estonian exporters. The deal includes a double-checking system to check for surges in imports of a particular product and to ensure that textiles declared as Estonian were made in that country.…
UNCTAD REPORT
KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL consumption of textiles is “continuing on its upwards trend,” the latest World Commodity Survey from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has said. Consumption volume is predicted to rise from 48 million tonnes to between 56 and 58 million tonnes by 2005, said the report.…
COMMISSION REPORT
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE COMPLETION of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing in 2005 will usher in a new world order for the industry, in which Europe will have to meet the challenge of unrestricted imports from major suppliers like China, India and Indonesia for the first time.…
SOLAR POWER
KEITH NUTHALL
A CONSORTIUM of key European Union players in the solar energy market has launched an ambitious scheme to install 15 million square meters of solar collectors in Europe by 2004, a project for which it hopes to get support from the European Commission.…
EIB - CADIZ
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has announced that it will lend Euro 150 million loan to Nueva Generadora del Sur SA for constructing a combined-cycle power plant in Cádiz province, Spain.…
BILBAO
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a state aid investigation into a Euro 53.2 million Basque government grant for the construction in Bilbao of a combined-cycle electricity production plant and a re-gasification unit, which is to provide the fuel for the power station.…
FOREST POWER
KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERN has been aired at a Forest Based Industries Forum meeting in Stockholm about the EU White Paper on renewable energy, which highlights the use of wood products in power generation. While participants from the timber sector stressed that they “were keen to see an increasing role for forestry,” there were worries that this could distort the market.…