Search Results for: China

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF is investigating China garlic smuggling, with low production costs and high EU duties generating high illegal profits. OLAF claims Euro 60 million in duties are being lost, with only meat (of all kinds) and sugar subject to more food-fraud inquiries – 17 are ongoing into garlic.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has warned of a continued boom in counterfeits of clothing and accessory products entering the European Union (EU), with more than 10.9 million fake items seized by customs officials last year. This is 140% more than the numbers of seizures in 2004.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

TECHNOLOGY developed by Nazi Germany and Apartheid era South Africa to turn coal into oil could guarantee solid fuels markets well into the future, an American geological expert has claimed.

University of Washington Professor Emeritus Eric Cheney said making oil from coal by reacting it with water known as Fischer-Tropsch process could become commercially successful given sustained high oil prices.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MORE than 30% of all confectionary sold in China are counterfeits of global brands, a new European Commission intellectual property survey says. Businesses, industrial federations and diplomatic missions stressed the difficulty of preventing such offences through legal action.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

IRAN’S US$1 billion paint sector is going through a boom period: it is expected to grow by up to 20% this year on the back of strong decorative paint growth, an expanding automotive sector, and surging demand for specialised paints in the shipping and energy sectors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INDIA has been branded a serious hotspot for counterfeit books, in a global European Commission survey of countries where product fakes are manufactured. The Commission’s directorate general (DG) for trade gathered information from companies, diplomatic missions and trade federations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend Euro 28.3 million on research to fight bird flu, which remains a threat to European Union (EU) environmental health. The studies will examine the flu’s microbiological mode of attack, human and livestock vaccine development, better diagnosis and early warning systems.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

NEARLY a third of all confectionary sold in China are counterfeit or copycats of global brands, a new European Commission survey says.

The intellectual property enforcement survey for 2006, based on questionnaires about infringements and the attitudes of the authorities in the countries concerned, put China at the top of the tree for sweet fraud.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEARLY a third of all confectionary sold in China are counterfeits of global brands, a new European Commission survey says. Businesses, industrial federations and diplomatic missions agreed: "For the confectionary business, the infringement causes more than 30% loss in sales value every year", and they stressed the difficulty of preventing such offences through legal action.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

"REFINERY Process Outsourcing" or simply RPO is an exciting buzzword in the otherwise hard-pressed Indian petroleum industry, as the term represents newly found and highly profitable venture of operating refineries to fulfil surging international demand.…