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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has promised the Chinese government it will not ape Turkey in re-imposing quotas on China exports of clothing textiles, despite the supposed end to such restrictions on January 1. A spokeswoman for EU trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has told the state-owned China Daily the EU would not return to quotas, but was instead looking at possible temporary “safeguard” measures in case of an export glut to Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LEATHER industry could shed significant numbers of jobs in poor and rich countries following a successful World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round agreement on industrial and textile goods. Its aim is to slash tariffs across the board, and in that instance, said a UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report, there will be winners and losers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA and China have agreed to share information in the field of natural resources, including industrial minerals. The Natural Resources Canada federal ministry has signed agreements with China’s National Development and Reform Commission and its Ministry of Land and Resources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHINESE government has released plans to reform its cigarette labelling legislation, asking World Trade Organisation (WTO) governments for comments before the rules come into force later this year. Comprehensive tabled regulations administered by the Standardisation Administration of China would insist that cigarette labelling for packets sold in China comply with the country’s Trademark Law, including that only officially sanctioned Chinese characters are used (in combination with foreign scripts, such as western letters if necessary).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the takeover of Italian copper production holding company Generale Industrie Metallurgiche SpA (GIM), of Italy, by Milan-based finance house INTEK SpA, which is controlled by Quattroduedue Holding BV, of the Netherlands. GIM companies produce and distribute copper and copper alloy products, operating 18 production plants located in Britain, Italy, Germany, Spain and China.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
A CLOSER monitoring of live animal exports within the European Union (EU) is promised by the EU agriculture Commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, as the former Danish agriculture minister settles down in her new responsibilities.

She will be working hand-in-glove with colleagues who have a direct responsibility for the issue, the Commissioner told the Meat Trades Journal at her Brussels office.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
TO talk of the German paint industry – the largest in Europe – is to talk of a recession in construction that simply won’t go away. The overall paint market is mature, stable, highly competitive and characterised, at least in recent years, by virtually no growth.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ONLY comparatively recently have the world’s anti money laundering agencies come to grips with alternative remittance systems (ARS) and even today the scale of the systems and the degree of infiltration by criminals is still not fully known.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) rapid consumer alert service RASFF has warned of a spate of aflatoxin contamination in peanuts, groundnuts and hazelnuts from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Brazil and China, and in Turkish dried figs.

ENDS…

BY TAMARA VANTROYEN, in Hong Kong

IT is not just a rumour anymore: China is officially upgrading its water quality, a move welcome to drinks manufacturers that rely on and control costs through guaranteed clean water supplies. China launched new drinking water standards in June, raising the number of forbidden water pollutants from 35 to 101.…