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EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPETITION officials are examining a proposed German joint-venture merging the downstream and petrochemical operations of Deutsche Shell GmbH and its rival RWE-DEA. The German Competition Authority has been given the right to adjudicate on the downstream elements by the European Commission, which is itself handling the deal’s petrochemical implications.…
SATELLITES
KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Space Agency-supported satellite ground station has been helping Canadian fire fighters to tackle a spate of large-scale blazes in British Columbia. The
REMSAT unit is driven or flown by helicopter close to a particular fire, establishing a link with satellite cameras, which beam back accurate one-metre resolution images, enabling fire teams to target their work, including the mapping of blaze perimeters.…
POLAND PALLETS
KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to punish five Polish pallet producers who the European Commission alleges have failed to abide by promises not to dump cheap products on the EU market, thereby escaping anti-dumping duties of up to 10.6 per cent agreed established in 1997.…
TAIWAN/CHINA LIGHTERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked EU ministers to re-impose for another five years the existing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of gas-fuelled, non-refillable pocket flint lighters and certain refillable pocket flint lighters, made in China and Taiwan. If approved, the rate of duty shall be set at Euro 0.065.…
INDIA BED LINEN
Keith Nuthall
EUROPEAN bed linen manufacturers have been given six months to request the imposition of renewed anti-dumping duties on cut-priced imports from India, after the European Commission complied with a WTO ruling on the protection and suspended existing tariffs. Geneva had claimed that Brussels had wrongly calculated the duties and EU trade commissioner Pascal Lamy has now ruled that there is currently insufficient information on which to base a fresh assessment leading to an immediate re-imposition of the duties.…
ATC LATEST
Keith Nuthall
MEXICO, Bolivia and Malta have joined the string of World Trade Organisation member governments which have announced how they will implement the third stage of liberalisation commitments under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…
ATC IMPLEMENTATION
KEITH NUTHALL
TEXTILE manufacturing countries that are members of the World Trade Organisation have attacked the world’s major importers – the US, the EU, and Canada – for failing to even approach the liberalisation targets imposed by the WTO’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…
TMB MONITORING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CLOTHING manufacturing countries that are members of the World Trade Organisation have attacked the world’s major importers – the US, the EU, and Canada – for failing to even approach the liberalisation targets imposed by the WTO’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…
BRA MANUFACTURERS
BY KATE REW
BRA manufacturers in the United States are responding to the growing demand from larger women who are no longer content to wear cumbersome, corset-like structures, but would prefer flimsier, sexier bras which are both comfortable and flatter their fuller figures.…
RENEWABLE DIRECTIVE
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has attempted to bridge the gap between it and the EU Council of Ministers over whether mandatory targets for the use of green electricity should be written into the proposed directive on “the promotion of electricity produced from renewable energy sources in the internal electricity market.”…