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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has abandoned a review of European Union (EU) anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of threaded malleable cast-iron tube or pipe fittings from Brazil, the Czech Republic, Japan, China, South Korea and Thailand, after affected exporters failed to assist Brussels its investigators.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STAGE is being set at the World Trade Organisation for a formal dispute procedure over steel safeguard duties between two countries who do not formally recognise each other’s existence. The Peoples Republic of China and the Republic of China, (also known as Taiwan), are arguing over duties erected by Communist China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN the New Year is upon us, pessimists tend to herald the approach of apocalypse, gloomy tidings and battening down the hatches. And in a year that may see war in the Middle East, the naysayers may say more in 2003 than usual.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Textile Manufacturers Institute (ATMI) is voicing its opposition to the Bush administration’s recent tariff-slashing proposal for the ongoing World Trade Organisation Doha Development Round, saying the trade plan will further open the market to China and wipe out US$13 billion worth of US business.…

BY MARK ROWE
A MOSLEM consumer group wants Malaysia to ban chicken imports from China, Thailand and the Philippines because of health and religious concerns. The Malaysian Muslim Consumer Association claims that raw chicken from China contained traces of a toxic antibiotic banned by Malaysia’s health ministry and that Chinese slaughtering methods were questionable from a religious point of view.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Textile Manufacturers Institute (ATMI) is urging its government to take action against Indonesia’s ban on textile imports from all countries. The ATMI said the move flies in the face of international rules and its chairman, Van May, says a fair response would be for the United States to immediately prohibit all imports of Indonesian textile goods which totalled US$350 million last year, until the ban is lifted.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN consumers are being ripped off by fraudsters making illegal use of the CE mark according to evidence submitted to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The CE mark denotes that a product was made in the European Union (EU) and conforms with EU safety legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to lift a ban on another two Chinese food imports, which was imposed over concerns about the misuse of anti-biotics. The EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has approved the health of Chinese crayfish and surimi.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA and KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOVERNMENT of Sri Lanka is embarking on a comprehensive survey of the country’s clay resources as demand grows thanks to an official policy of promoting a home-grown ceramics industry, which is already the largest mineral-based sector in this south Asian country.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE THEORY of evolution is as relevant to the tobacco industry’s battle against counterfeiters as it is to the animal kingdom. As technology evolves to give the brand owners the edge, so the counterfeiter moves quickly to play catch up, with both cat and mouse becoming ever more sophisticated in efforts to gain the upper hand.…