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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE PRODUCTION of Indian sugar in the current season (October-September 2004) is expected to drop by about 1.4 million tonnes to 4.8 million tonnes, compared with last season’s 6.2 million tonnes, according to the Bombay Sugar Merchants’ Association (BSMA).…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INDIAN bottled water industry should be standardised, to consolidate its current runaway growth, the secretary general of the Asian Bottle Water Association has said. Ms Ita Thaher said that the bottled water sector in India is too unorganised and that more focus is required on product development, quality control and marketing for an industry she values at IND Rupees 10 billion, growing at 60 per cent annually.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission seems determined to have the last word in its interminable row with India over cotton-type bed linen protection. Having abandoned its long attempt to impose anti-dumping duties, the Commission has now asked EU ministers to erect countervailing duties on these products, designed to compensate EU producers for alleged illegal Indian government subsidies.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
INDIA’S Council for Leather Exporters is pushing the country’s producers to seize 20 per cent of the US$1.5 billion’s worth of footwear bought globally by US retail giant WalMart over the next three years. Council chairman Shri S.S.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SOUTH Asia regional meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has agreed to set up a Central Reporting Agency (CRA), which would evaluate ground and airborne ADS/CPDLC systems performance in an operational trial for the Bay of Bengal area.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BANGLADESH has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in a row with India over its imposition of anti-dumping duties on Bangladeshi exports of lead acid batteries. Dhaka claims that New Delhi broke 17 WTO rules in its erection of the tariffs and has called for formal consultations on the issue at the organisation’s headquarters in Geneva.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the permanent abolition of anti-dumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of sacks and bags made of polyethylene or polypropylene from China, India, Indonesia and Thailand. Its move follows a U-turn by the European Association for Textile Polyolefins (EATP), which had in 2002 requested a review into the impending expiry of the duties on behalf of its members (who comprise 32.03 per cent of total EU production).…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
INDIAN personal hygiene company Henkel SPIC India Ltd is expanding its soap and toothpaste manufacturing capacity at the Calcutta Chemical Company Ltd’s (Calchem) Tiljala plant, (in Calcutta), which it bought in 1999, Henkel – itself a subsidiary of Germany’s Henkel KgaA – is to modernise and expand its manufacturing of soap (from 5,000 to 12,000 tonnes per year) and toothpaste (100 to 150 tonnes per year) by this September, with a minimum investment of around INDRupees 40 million (US$ 880,000).…

BY KENCHO WANGDI
EVEN as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and some 170 countries work towards implementing a tobacco control convention, Bhutan, the remote and tiny Himalayan kingdom, has taken a step further by banning tobacco sale at all its duty-free outlets.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
INDIA’S Dalmia Consumer Care company has launched a chewing gum designed to wean pan masala users from their habit. Its Chabaaza gumlets are priced at INDRupees 1 per pack (designed to imitate traditional pan packaging) and contain no supari or other addictive ingredients.…