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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU is prepared to discuss eliminating any food export subsidies, agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler said at the reopening of the World Trade Organisation’s agricultural liberalisation negotiations, stalled since last year’s debacle at Cancun. *Fischler has visited China promoting EU food exports.…

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THE POLISH government has withdrawn its complaint against China at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that an increase in imports of Chinese footwear was of such a level to break China’s WTO’s accession agreement. It means scheduled formal talks will not take place in Geneva.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN steel makers have added a surcharge to the price of their output to compensate for surging costs of scrap and other raw materials. Car and appliance manufacturers and other buyers of steel from Canadian mills must now pay an extra CDN$95 per ton.…

BY EDWARD PETERS
DEPENDING on who you ask, Taiwan is either a renegade province or to all intents and purposes an independent nation, albeit one that currently lacks full international recognition. To suggest that it could be a fully functioning country in its own right to anyone in Beijing – the capital of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – is tantamount to treason.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has re-imposed 49 per cent definitive anti-dumping duties on cut priced exports into the EU of silicon from China. The move follows a European Commission review of the existing tariffs, (erected in 1997), which concluded that there was large “space capacity” in the Chinese silicon industry, leading to “the likelihood of continuation and recurrence of dumping and a recurrence of injury” to EU producers, “should the measures be repealed in respect of the country concerned.”…

BY EDWARD PETERS
THE PAST decade has seen China grasp an increasing share of the world’s cosmetic packaging industry. Low production prices and international manufacturing standards — to say nothing of an increasing appreciation of the beauty business — have all contributed to the People’s Republic upping its packaging profile.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A SIGNIFICANT increase in the number of Chinese tourists coming to Europe is expected to follow the signing of an agreement between the European Union (EU) and the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) that will simplify and ease the tourist visa procedures for visitors to Approved Destination Status (ADS) countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MASS vaccination campaign against bird flu might result from the ongoing outbreak in Asia, with the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) moving away from a pro-culling policy. Following meetings with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Office International des Épizooties on animal health the FAO said that a targeted vaccination campaign in heavily affected countries maybe required.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A CHINESE government corporation has struck an agreement with two Papua New Guinean companies to advance the A$855 million (US$675 million) Ramu Nickel project to development. The Ramu Nickel Mine is located in the mountainous Madang Province, just south of this region’s capital Madang on the Papua New Guinea (PNG) north coast.…