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OECD - SHIPS
BY ALAN OSBORN
A MOVE towards radical changes in marine insurance practices have been signalled by a policy statement from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, (OECD), on ways of eliminating sub-standard shipping throughout the world.
The OECD, which represents the 30 leading western industrial countries, has set out a number of principles to be developed into precise recommendations which, among other things, are aimed at “reducing the unintended effects of insurance policies that allow unfettered coverage of sub-standard ships.”…
CHINA ATC IMPLEMENTATION
Keith Nuthall
CHINA has sought to bury grumbling amongst its fellow World Trade Organisation member countries that it has been slow to implement promises made on joining the institution to liberalise its imports, by fulfilling a promise to publish quotas in April under its Agreement on Textiles and Clothing commitments.…
CHINA ATC IMPLEMENTATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has sought to bury grumbling amongst its fellow World Trade Organisation member countries that it has been slow to implement pledges to liberalise quotas, by delivering on its promise to publish import quotas in April that fulfill its commitments under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing and cover many knitted lines.…
US TARIFFS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CLOTHING imports from the United States are to bear the brunt of retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union because of the erection of controversial ‘safeguard’ duties by Washington to protect the American steel industry.
The European Commission has announced that it is asking EU ministers to approve a selected range of products, where the levying of duty will cause the most pain to US exporters, in a bid to force the Bush administration to drop its steel tariffs.…
ECJ COMPUTER
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has begun a “vast computer project” designed to shorten the time spent on translating judgements and other legal documents into each of the European Union’s 11 official languages.
At present an author’s judicial text is analysed by a lawyer linguist who identifies terminological or legal references and inserts them in all the languages as hyperlinks.…
CAMBODIA
BY MARK ROWE
INTERNATIONAL maritime authorities have savaged Cambodia’s shipping safety record and called for its flag to be banned from all trade. At least 25 Cambodia-registered ships have been wrecked or stranded since 1995 and there have been a further 41 collisions, nine fires and 45 arrests, according to shipping-records collator, Seaway Data.…
ILO DATABASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DATABASE providing information about workplace smoking issues has been set up by the International Labour Organisation. It includes descriptions of relevant legislation, journal articles, books, government documents, reports, kits, case law, training materials, and analysis, including notes on productivity costs caused by tobacco usage.…
TEXTILE JOB LOSSES
BY PHILIP FINE
US textile manufacturers are anxious to tell US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill how his department’s high dollar policy has contributed to devastating job losses for the country’s textile and apparel workers.
American Textile Manufacturers Institute spokesman, Cass Johnson, says his organisation would be attending O’Neill’s senate banking hearings on May 1st and will also lobby federal officials on how propping up US currency has translated into his sector losing 13 per cent of its workforce in one year.…
AIRPORT NOISE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers (transport) has approved the latest European Commission airport noise directive, accepting European Parliament technical amendments that would make the legislation tougher than originally proposed.
MEP’s had voted for changes time-limiting for 10 years an exemption allowing the noisiest aircraft registered in developing countries to continue operating in Europe, adding that these aeroplanes must be prevented from moving to new routes in the EU.…
CORRUPTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations has highlighted how some member countries have been using their money laundering laws to criminalise corruption, while employing bribery or corruption laws to outlaw money laundering. A report by the UN Secretary General’s department on how the organisation’s 1996 declaration against Corruption and Bribery in International Commercial Transactions has lead to national laws being tightened regarding these crimes lists a number of case studies.…