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BY KEITH NUTHALL
IMPORT duties on tobacco products shipped from the Lebanon to the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) countries have become duty free under a wide-ranging commercial agreement, which came into force on January 1. The EFTA-Lebanon Free Trade Agreement will also see Lebanese duties being cut from 2008, to be abolished entirely by 2015.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut
AN ARAB language newspaper has reported that British clothing retail giant Marks & Spencer is investigating opening a branch in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

The Al Balad newspaper said talks have been suspended however over Lebanon’s ongoing political instability and concern over the possible store location.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut
IN an already charged political atmosphere a verbal argument between students at the Beirut Arab University on Thursday turned violent, spreading out onto the streets and leaving two students dead and over 160 students and protesters wounded.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

FOR nearly two months this summer, Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport was out of action, crippled by Israel’s aerial attacks on the runways during its war with Hizbullah and by an air blockade that lasted long after the ceasefire was in place.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

CONTRARY to all assumptions, Lebanese universities have not experienced the student exodus they thought might happen following the month long war between Israel and Hizbullah, but the conflict did cost lives, financial losses and a sizeable reduction in the number of Western students.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

LEBANON’S food manufacturing sector took a heavy blow during the 34-day conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militia Hizbullah, recording tens of millions of US dollars in direct damages and more than US$500 million in indirect losses.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

LEBANON’S clothing sector – manufacturing and retail – was crippled by the month long war between Israel and Hizbullah, and the knock-on effects of the conflict have proved equally problematic for a sector that was just recovering from a slump caused by political turbulence in 2005.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

LEBANON’S paint sector took a heavy blow during the 34-day conflict between Israel and Hizbullah this summer, recording millions of dollars in direct and indirect losses.

Shaker Saab, business development manager for Tinol Paints, said July and August sales dropped 95%.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Damascus and Amman

JORDAN and Syria both have large tobacco markets, with a third of Jordan’s population, and around 60% of Syria’s male population, being smokers. Both markets are growing, spurred on by large young populations and the cultural prevalence of smoking cigarettes and nargileh (water pipes), but not all is rosy in the sector.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

BEIRUT: The month long war waged by Israel against Hizbullah has caused considerable damage to Lebanon’s environment.

The coastline is marred by an oil spill, the air has been polluted by burning fuel oil, destroyed factories, forest fires and dust kicked up from bombings, and there is the possibility that depleted uranium (DU) and phosphorous bombs were used by the Israeli military.…