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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a wide-ranging textiles trade deal with Serbia & Montenegro, where the EU will immediately abolish quota restrictions on Serb exports, in exchange for a phasing out of import duties on EU exports. The legislation lists a wide variety of textile raw material, yarn, fibre, fabrics and clothing lines affected by the deal, which would see Serb & Montenegrin duties scrapped by 2008.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will lend up to Euro 35 million to Croatian supermarket chain Getro, helping it add nine more stores to its current 15. Although this expansion will be in Croatia, the company will also use the money to explore moving into neighbouring Serbia & Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend Euro 22 million to Serbia & Montenegro pharmaceutical company Hemofarm Koncern a.d. (Hemofarm) to finance the construction of a new solid forms packaging and production facility in Obninsk, Russia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FORMAL decision has been taken by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to abolish all remaining textile and clothing import quotas for World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries from January 1. It means 210 quotas affecting exporters from Argentina, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand will go.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RIGHT of European Union (EU) anti-fraud agency OLAF to investigate allegations of wrongdoing in EU programmes will be extended to five non-member countries in the Balkans under agreements signed with Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia & Montenegro.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will cap duty-free sugar exports into the EU from the western Balkans after duty-free exports rose from almost zero to 270,000 tonnes in 2003. Quotas will restrict imports from Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Albania and Serbia & Montenegro.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will cap duty-free sugar exports into the EU from the western Balkans after duty-free exports rose from almost zero to 270,000 tonnes in 2003. Quotas will restrict imports from Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Albania and Serbia & Montenegro.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WANT to sell cigarettes? Go east, young man. That might be the advice that tobacco companies could glean from the latest set of World Health Organisation (WHO) smoking figures. Using 2003 or latest available data, the WHO has collated percentage rate proportions of smoking adults (18 and over), compared with total populations of all but 56 countries: the overwhelming majority of nations.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AS recently as 1989 Yugoslavia was the richest and most westernised country in eastern and central Europe and arguably among the more politically stable of them. But then came the collapse. The ethnic fighting of the early 1990s led to breakaways by Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina as independent states in 1992, leaving Serbia and Montenegro as the “Federal Republic of Yugoslavia” under Slobodan Milosevic.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend Euro 20 million to help an American packaging giant, the Ball Corporation, build an aluminium can plant in Serbia, focusing on drinks. The factory should start work next year, employing 100-150 workers at its Belgrade site.…