Search Results for: Thai

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PHILIP Morris International (PMI) has released a detailed intelligence dossier on cigarette and other tobacco product counterfeiting, in a bid to encourage the international cooperation it deems necessary to effectively fight this crime. The report highlights 17 countries around the world where it thinks cigarette counterfeiting is a particular problem and where the cigarette company has specific advice: Latvia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Egypt, Belize, Panama, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Ghana.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has re-imposed definitive antidumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of certain polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan, as proposed by the European Commission.…

BY MARK ROWE
INTERNATIONAL cosmetics companies are increasingly casting an eye over south-east Asia. In the middle of the first decade of the 21st Century it would appear to offer all things to all companies.

With Asia (including nearby China) representing half of the world’s population and an economic growth rate ranging between 5 and 10%, many companies are interested in entering or developing these markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced plans to reimpose definitive antidumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of certain polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan. The original duties were imposed in 2000 and were to lapse, but the Polyethylene Terephthalate Committee of Plastics Europe called for their reimposition, claiming the “expiry of the measures would… result in a continuation or recurrence of dumping and injury to the EU industry.”…

BY MARK ROWE

A T-SHIRT that that dramatically reduces the impact of body odours with the aid of nanotechnology has been produced by the Thai company United Textile Mills. Silver nanoparticles are embedded in the fabric of the garment and are so small that they allow silver atoms to penetrate the fabric and attach strongly to the fibres, whereupon they suppress the ability of microbial cells to transfer odours.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel was to be authorised as Fish Farming International went to press, adjudicating on Thailand’s claims that USA anti-dumping duties on its shrimp exports break WTO rules. Washington has resisted Bangkok’s panel bid, but its authorisation was anticipated on October 26.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel should start work this month on Thailand’s claims that USA anti-dumping duties on its shrimp exports break WTO rules. Washington has resisted Bangkok’s bid for a panel, but it cannot stop its formation, likely to be approved on October 26.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PARIS (ICIS News)–Rates of anti-dumping duties set this week by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers for imports into the EU from China and Thailand of plastic sacks and bags have been detailed by minutes released in Brussels today (26 Sept).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE THAI government and the World Bank are claiming that developing countries can afford to treat AIDS patients with free anti-retroviral drugs. In a joint report, they note that of the estimated 40 million people worldwide infected with HIV, only 700,000 people are being treated with the new therapy.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

STRONG demand for leather luggage in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is lining the pockets of tanners in Italy, Pakistan and Thailand.

According to a recent global online survey by marketing data company AC Nielsen, the UAE ranks among the top five countries worldwide for luxury branded luggage bags.…