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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN governments should exploit the scare tactics of the 1980’s when AIDS campaigns shocked promiscuous sex devotees and intravenous drug users into changing their behaviour, stemming HIV infections, the World Health Organisation has claimed. It fears dramatic increases in HIV cases in eastern Europe that are amongst the world’s worst, notably in Estonia, Latvia, Russia and the Ukraine “where the epidemic continues to spread unchecked”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT could be the most underestimated commercial crime in the world, the illegal trade in wildlife and their products. Some estimates put its value at US$5 billion-a-year, but governments do not really seem to care. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) incoming trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has confessed to being “very worried” about the impact in Europe of World Trade Organisation (WTO) textile trade quota liberalisation at the end of this year.

Speaking yesterday (4-10) to a European Parliament hearing ahead of his taking office in November, he quoted reports warning that China could snatch 50% of the world’s textile markets, saying: “This is a huge challenge that we face”.…

BY MARK ROWE
AT first sight they would appear to be uneasy bedfellows. On the one hand, English Heritage, the British government’s advisory body with responsibility for the care and maintenance of the country’s historic environment; on the other, the Marxist-led government of the Indian state of West Bengal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BLOW to smaller developing countries far from key American and European markets from the abolition of protective quotas in January could be cushioned by the continuing use of preferential tariffs, a new World Trade Organisation (WTO) report has predicted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has praised China for securing a 30% drop in cases of tuberculosis since 1991, linking its success to a comprehensive anti-TB strategy called the Directly Observed Therapy Shortcourse (DOTS). China was, it said, now on track to meeting the WHO’s global goal of cutting TB outbreaks in half by 2015.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDIAN government has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), complaining about anti-dumping duties imposed by the European Union (EU) in 2000 on hot-rolled steel coils. India wants formal talks with Brussels, claiming discrimination over the EU’s failure to impose anti-dumping duties on the same products from Egypt, Slovakia and Turkey, despite a European Commission investigation showing they were dumping coils and damaging EU producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
‘CATCH me if you can’ might well be the motto of international money launderers. Despite laws criminalising the practice being well established, international organisations are continuing to extend their legal and geographical scope. Keith Nuthall reports.

IF a continent has need of comprehensive cross-border anti-money laundering legislation, it surely has to be Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has imposed a definitive 14.1% countervailing duty on imports of stainless steel wire with a diameter of 1mm or more exported by Indian producer VSL Wires, of Boisar, Maharashtra. The company had asked to be exempt from the 48.8% general duties as a new exporter, but ministers imposed them, at a lower rate.…

Keith Nuthall
AS the European Union (EU) prepares to abolish its remaining restrictive import quotas for textile and clothing products, the latest European Commission statistics confirm that China is best placed to exploit this liberalisation. For 2003, China exported more textile products to the expanded EU, with 10.7% of imports.…