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BY MONICA DOBIE
SARA LEE Corp., the USA-based maker of Kiwi shoe polish, is suing Pell Inc., a group of supermarket shoe-repair stands in the American mid-west, for importing counterfeit polish from China and selling it under the Kiwi label. Sara Lee suspected a problem and sent private investigators to Pell outlets to buy polish and also purchased some from Pell’s website; it was found to be fake.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE RECENT sharp rise in the price of petrol and petro-chemicals has inevitably threatened prices and profit margins in the paint manufacturing industry but the effect is far from straightforward according to leading figures in the industry. This is because paint and coatings manufacturers do not buy oil directly, but products further down the chain such as vinyl acetate monomer and others where impact of higher crude oil prices tends to be muted.…

BY EDWARD PETERS
CRUISE to the top of Shanghai’s funkiest “shop, slurp and schmooze” conglomerate – a seven-storey, 88-year-old, restored post-renaissance pile dubbed Three On The Bund – and run an eye over the tongue-in-cheek menu at the “New Heights” restaurant.…

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
AN ABANDONED bid to toughen anti-dumping duties on Chinese coke exports to Europe has been formally scrapped by European Union (EU) ministers. The abolition of a formal review of the Euro 32.6/tonne duties (on coke exceeding 80mm in diameter) comes as ministers consider taking China to the WTO over its export restrictions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA and the European Union (EU) have struck a customs cooperation agreement that involves the rapid exchange of information and documents between EU and Chinese officials to crack down on trade fraud. Chinese exports to Europe have been beset with fake rules of origin declarations, with goods being funnelled fraudulently through neighbouring Asian countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA will this year begin a trial of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) technology at three airports in the west of the country, it has told an Asia-Pacific region ADS-B meeting staged by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).…

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
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.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has released a global catalogue of ideal safety signs for accident prevention, fire protection and emergency evacuation, because of concerns that worldwide, confusion sparked by existing signs causes death and injuries. Its move follows the release in the UK of a survey by leading health and safety equipment supplier Seton, that 87 per cent of British office-based professionals cannot identify electrical warning signs.…