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BY KEITH NUTHALL

PARIS (ICIS News)–The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has exempted Hanita Coatings Rural Cooperative Association Ltd, of Hanita, Israel, from existing definitive 53% anti-dumping and 19.1% countervailing duties on imports of polyethylene terephthalate film from India, Brazil and Israel.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BANNED azo dyes are still turning up in clothing and textile products sold by European Union (EU) retailers, the European Commission’s consumer alert service RAPEX has warned. It reported that four products had recently been withdrawn from sale because of contamination with these prohibited chemicals.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THEY may take a few years to come into effect, but binding international rules now under discussion, to cover ship recycling will "green" the dirty and unacceptable face of an unregulated industry notorious for environmental damage and appalling working conditions.…

BY Raghavendra Verma in New Delhi

Astrology, philosophy, cookery and international bestsellers led December sales in the booming billion-pound book market in India. The country is also the world’s third largest producer of English titles.

"Reading habits are picking up and so is purchasing power but retailers are reluctant to provide sales figures so even a rough estimate of total sales is next to impossible."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s (WTO) general council has permanently amended the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement to make permanent the 2003 waiver helping poor countries obtain generic medicines during health emergencies. The TRIPS amendment enables any WTO member country to export generic pharmaceuticals made under a compulsory licence to assist countries lacking their own manufacturing capacity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union and Norway have divided up common stocks within the North Sea for 2006, overcoming difficult conservation problems, especially regarding cod. Brussels and Oslo have agreed on a long-term management plan for cod, to come into effect when the stock has returned to safe biological levels.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

INDIA’S opening-up as a free market economy, along with the adoption of new technology, reformed laws, and the presence of vigilant media are curbing many commercial crimes in the world’s largest democracy, but criminals still find ways to make a dishonest Rupee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AUTO manufacturing firms will be closely monitoring next week’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong for signs that the WTO’s long-running Doha Development Round talks are about to crack open national automobile markets. Key auto industry countries – the US, the European Union, Canada, Japan, South Korea, India and Brazil – have been making steady progress this year in identifying non-tariff barriers to trade they would like to remove, such as burdensome customs procedures, technical engineering rules and licences.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ONLY comparatively recently have the world’s anti money laundering agencies come to grips with alternative remittance systems (ARS) and even today the scale of the systems and the degree of infiltration by criminals is still not fully known.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

INDIAN students, desperate to prosper from the country’s booming economy, are resorting to expensive means of cheating to clear competitive examinations senior academics are warning. "The problem is getting serious day-by-day. For a limited number of seats in medical, engineering and management institutions, an increasing number of students, with active support of their parents, are trying to succeed by hook or crook", warns Dr.K.K.Jha,…