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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EU has abandoned plans to impose protective safeguard duties on imports from China of frozen strawberries. This follows the withdrawal of a complaint by Poland. Chinese strawberry producers however could now face an EU anti-dumping duty instead, following a replacement investigation.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN researchers are helping build a biodiesel plant in Hangzhou, China. The universities of Milan, Jaen (in Spain), and Cordoba are working with China’s University of Tianjin and the University of Malaya to build a plant fuelled by locally available animal or vegetable matter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SPANISH consumer protection authorities have banned the import of a China-made toy novelty make-up set branded ‘Royal Make-up’ and ‘Geoffrey’. It has alerted the European Commission’s RAPEX unsafe product warning system that the set has unsafe mesophilic aerobic microorganisms, mould and yeast contamination counts, breaking the European Union cosmetics and toys directives and Spanish national rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved linking the European Union’s (EU) design protection system to that run globally by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). This will formally tie the EU’s design protection regulation to WIPO’s Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

THE COSMETICS and toiletries market in the Middle East is booming with 12% growth expected this year in a US$2.1 billion sector. Market trends differ from country to country, but the general trend is rising demand for European cosmetics over local products in the wealthier Arab countries, largely due to aggressive marketing campaigns by the major brands, and high demand for unregistered, fake brand name perfumes in countries with sizeable low-income populaces, such as Egypt, Lebanon and Syria.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

INDONESIA’S paint and coatings industry continues to develop, with growth in sectors being led by increases in exports of furniture, and the introduction of new coatings products and systems.

Overall increased domestic demand for paints and coatings in Indonesia has led some companies to expand.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

IT is not often that Jan Figel, the European Union (EU) Commissioner for education, training and multilingualism makes headlines. Not only is the Slovak modest to a fault, but as under EU treaties, education policy is controlled by national governments, his responsibilities rarely get the headlines which other policy areas attract.…

BY SYMON ROSS, in Auckland

INTERNATIONAL law enforcement agencies acknowledge that the laundering of criminal proceeds generated by transnational crime remains a problem in the Pacific region despite increased legislation designed to curb the cleaning of dirty money.

With no Pacific countries now on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) blacklist of uncooperative territories, international monitors could be forgiven for focusing their attentions elsewhere.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

IT is not often that Jan Figel, the European Union (EU) Commissioner for education, training and multilingualism makes headlines. Not only is the Slovak modest to a fault, but as under EU treaties, education policy is controlled by national governments, his responsibilities rarely get the headlines which other policy areas attract.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union has abandoned plans to impose protective safeguard duties on imports from China of frozen strawberries, but has started investigating a potentially permanent anti-dumping duty instead.

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