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Keith Nuthall
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve the expansion of EU import quota levels for textile and clothing products, to take account of the oncoming accession of 10 eastern and southern European countries in May. The products would circulate around the EU and cover those from 18 mostly developing countries, including China and India.…

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 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 pure 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 MARK ROWE
THAILAND’S Thainox Steel Ltd has received approval from the country’s Commerce Ministry to increase the price of its stainless steel by 28 per cent to Baht 105.94 per kilogramme (GBPounds 1.85). Steel product makers have been lobbying to have government-regulated price ceilings lifted, citing raw material costs that are at 10-year highs.…

BY PHILIP FINE

HONG Kong, China, Poland, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea are among 18 countries restricting US poultry imports, after four American states – Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas – discovered cases of a new variant of bird flu.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INDIAN government has been pushing Australian coking coal exporters to resume full deliveries to India’s steel sector, hit by these mining companies citing emergency contractual clauses to reduce supplies. New Delhi has sent high level officials to Australia to solve the problem; it says alternative sources of coking coal are unavailable, especially since China ceased exporting to fuel its own steel sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MARK ROWE
THE SPREAD of the bird flu virus is still not under control, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned, pointing to new outbreaks amongst poultry in Cambodia, China, Indonesia and Laos. The FAO said that more than 80 million chickens have so far been culled, excluding those in China: (Indonesia 15 million; Thailand 30 million; Vietnam 30 million; and Pakistan, 4 million).…

Keith Nuthall
POLAND has called for formal talks with China at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), because of concerns that its local footwear industry is being damaged by cheap Chinese imports. In a note to the WTO about a selected range of footwear products, Warsaw said: “In 2001, as compared to 2000, imports increased by 31.3 per cent and in 2002 as compared to 2001 by 18.8 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked by the European Commission to impose definitive anti-dumping duties of 23.6 per cent on imports from Russia of imports of silicon (with silicon content less than 99.99 per cent by weight).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
HIGHJACKERS in Langley, British Columbia stole 10 million Imperial Tobacco cigarettes from trucks bound for retail outlets in the Canadian province, with an estimated value of CDN $3.8 million (US$2.86 million). The theft is the latest in a string criminal events surrounding tobacco.…