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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ATTACK has been made on the United States, European Union (EU), and other textile importing jurisdictions for waiting until the last minute to abolish most restrictive quotas under the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Textile and Clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S largest producer of chrysotile asbestos fibres, LAB Chrysotile, has announced it will indefinitely shut one of its two mines near Thetford Mines, Quebec, this November. The company has blamed the closure of its Black Lake mine, which will result in 450 job losses, on a high Canadian dollar in comparison to the US dollar and tough international competition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has agreed guaranteed prices for sugar traded with India and its ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) partners until June 2005. They are for raw sugar: Euro 52.37/100 kilograms; and white sugar: Euro 64.65/100 kilograms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN the European Union (EU) signed up to an Agreement on Textiles and Clothing at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) last Uruguay Round that foresaw the scrapping of import quotas at the start of 2005, it is hard to imagine it viewing the deal as a way to boost production in knitted products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA is the exporter to watch following the abolition of import quotas for textile accessories and footwear this December under the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) agreement on textiles and clothing (ATC). Indeed, a detailed report written for the European Commission on this major liberalisation predicts that not only are Chinese export volumes expected to rise, and developed country production levels to fall, but China is expected to exploit its bulk-manufacturing expertise to seize markets from developing country Asian competitors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has boasted that 100 countries have now signed its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, although only nine countries have yet to ratify the treaty. Of these, the world’s major developed economies are conspicuously absent, the line up including Fiji, India, Malta, Mongolia, New Zealand, Norway, Palau, Seychelles and Sri Lanka.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
INDIA’S Sara Lee Household & Body Care India Pvt. Ltd cleaning has invested IND Rupees 2 million (US$40,000) in creating a certified environment managed system (EMS) aimed at saving the company money. It will consume less water and fuel, while boosting the recycling of waste, such as plastics and corrugated paper boxes.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN researchers have developed a ‘curtain of air’ system that could keep disease-carrying insects from boarding civil aeroplanes. The technology, created by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in the United States, is a high velocity fan system used in passenger walkways that excludes 99 per cent of mosquitoes and flies.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INDIAN government has released an additional quota for its domestic market, allowing 150,000 tonnes more sugar to be sold. Commentators have raised concerns that the move may weaken sugar prices.…