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Keith Nuthall
THE VENEZUELAN government has notified the World Trade Organisation about how it intends to implement the third tranche of its liberalisation commitments under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing. Caracas said its new quota-free list of goods would include additional products, accounting for at least 18 per cent of Venezuela’s 1990 textile and clothing imports.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE UNITED States faces another World Trade Organisation battle over tariffs, this time with Thailand over Washington’s intention to waive clothing duties on exports from South American countries. The Thai government has warned that its industries will suffer heavily if the US waives duties on garments and footwear exported from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE VENEZUELAN government has informed the WTO of a safeguards duty investigation into imports of U sections of iron or steel, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of between 80 mm and 120 mm, and of I sections of iron or steel, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of between 80 mm and 140 mm.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a planned Spanish publishing joint venture between Germany’s Bertelsmann and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore SpA, of Italy, combining all the book publishing divisions and imprints in Spain and Latin America of Random House and Mondadori.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation are to examine in detail proposals made by the EU, USA, Venezuela and Canada for the dismantling of national bureaucratic barriers that can prevent oil and gas companies from working effectively around the world.…