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BY PHILIP FINE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE AMERICAN textile, apparel and fibre industry has planned to launch an "aggressive" lobbying campaign to persuade its government to try and moderate the surge in Chinese exports to the US. It released a report alleging that unless the federal government acts swiftly, China will gain control of between 65 and 75 per cent of the US apparel market and says a planned lifting of quotas in 2005 will destroy the American textile and apparel industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been authorised to negotiate a cooperation agreement with China on developing peaceful uses of nuclear energy. With the decision following Beijing’s move to become involved in the international fusion energy project ITER, one of the areas of joint-effort between the European Union (EU) and China will be “controlled thermonuclear fusion.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been authorised to negotiate a cooperation agreement with China on developing peaceful uses of nuclear energy. With the decision following Beijing’s move to become involved in the international fusion energy project ITER, one of the areas of joint-effort between the European Union (EU) and China will be “controlled thermonuclear fusion.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STORAGE of CO2 deep underground in uneconomic coal seams is one key option being considered by the (carbon) Sequestration Leadership Forum, which has just been joined by the European Commission. Other members are Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, Norway, China, Russia, Britain and the US.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has signed an international charter on the capture and storage deep underground of carbon dioxide, also involving Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, Norway, China, Russia, Britain and the US. This Sequestration Leadership Forum is developing schemes to capturing CO2 at source and storing it for thousands of years deep underground, probably in depleted oil and gas wells, with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.…

BY PHILIP FINE

IN order to persuade the US government to change its position on Chinese exports, six groups have planned an "aggressive" joint lobbying campaign in Washington. The American Textile Manufacturers Institute, the National Cotton Council, the National Textile Association, the American Fiber Manufacturers Association, the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition and the American Yarn Spinners Association claim that China’s textile and apparel exports to the United States have surged 140 per cent in one year, causing their industries to close more than fifty plants, destroying more than 40,000 American jobs.…

BY MARK ROWE
Thainox Steel, the largest stainless steel manufacturer in Southeast Asia, expects to boost output this year and increase profits, defying the continuing decline in global stainless steel prices. Output at the company’s plant in Rayong, Thailand, is expected to top 160,000 tonnes, up 10,000 tonnes from last year.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US government has signed a bilateral textile pact with Vietnam that gives the south-east Asian country the most generous access to the American market ever granted in an initial two-country agreement, according to a critical American Textile Manufacturers’ Institute (ATMI).…

BY MARK ROWE
THE SCHOOL textbook and related academic reading material has been a traditionally lucrative and never-ending market for publishers. But the growing phenomenon of e-learning is opening up new dimensions in this field across the globe.

The reason is the sheer scale of future need for education in developing regions, particularly in Asia where the potential numbers of higher education students is staggering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Bureau (IMB) of the International Chamber of Commerce has claimed that a growing number of Chinese banks are unnecessarily rejecting valid banking documents, hindering the import of steel into the country.

It says that the value of rejected documents relating to steel shipments into China has now exceeded US$100 million.…