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Keith Nuthall
THE INDIAN government has abandoned its appeal against last December’s World Trade Organisation ruling that it had broken global commerce rules by insisting that auto-manufacturers within its territory not only promise to buy some components locally, but that they export products of an equal value of imported inputs.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ALL 187 Member States of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) have endorsed a global programme to strengthen commercial aviation security on a global scale, primarily through a mandatory audit of national services at a two day High-Level, Ministerial Conference held at ICAO Headquarters in Montreal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has “expressed concern” and “disappointment” over China’s failure to met a January 1 deadline to establish low duty tariff quotas for imports of sugar, palm oil and some other commodities under the terms of its accession to the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHILEAN government has expanded the safeguard duty investigation on steel imports that it launched in December, so it can take into account the chain of events sparked by the Bush administration’s imposition of wide-ranging steel tariffs.

In a statement to the World Trade Organisation, Santiago said that the decision was taken “on the basis of the emergency measures adopted in recent weeks by a group of producer countries, the implications of which on the domestic industry can not yet be fully appreciated.”…

BY RICHARD Hurst, in Johannesburg
DAIMLER Chrysler South Africa’s new dealer strategy has prompted the Retail Motor Industry (RMI) organisation to investigate the possibility of taking the matter before the country’s competition authorities.

The new strategy will see changes in ownership, franchise territories realigned and a single band ownership in the major urban areas.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank has approved a US$5.6 million credit to fund a Pilot Fishery Development Project, to boost the development of fish farming in Albania, one of Europe’s poorest countries. The scheme also aims at improving the country’s wild fishery sector.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission today told Accountancy Age that it is “fairly certain” to investigate the proposed merger between Andersen’s non-US operations and KPMG and warned that its competition authority could well insist that the accounting giants sell off some of their European operations as a condition of clearing the deal.…

Keith Nuthall
EXPERTS at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) are discussing a proposal to set up a non-profit company that would offer airports, ground handlers and airlines third-party war risk liability insurance cover from US$50 million per insured, should the commercial market withdraw such protection.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE BATA Shoe Organisation has been invited to take part in the Calcutta Leather Complex, the West Bengal press has reported. State chief minister Buddadeb Bhattacharjee has said that Bata would be welcome to take advantage of the complex’s exporting and manufacturing facilities for leather goods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Council secretariat officials have told Lloyds List that the March 25th and 26th transport and telecommunications Council of Ministers will try to reach political agreement on the establishment of a single EU committee on safe seas and on the prevention of pollution by ships, which would replace a number of committees covering these policy areas.…