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CHINA WTO



BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA should formally become a member of the World Trade Organisation by March 2002, a move that will make it subject to the rights and obligations of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing. The accession follows 15 years of negotiations, and was approved by a formal meeting of the WTO’s China working party.…

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BRAIN DRAIN



BY ALAN OSBORN
Britain is the key source within the OECD countries for scientists and engineers working in America, according to the latest Science, Technology and Industry indicators published by the organisation. They show that 7,086 scientists and engineers from the UK are at present working in the US, followed by 5,351 from Canada, 2,298 from Germany and 1,843 from Korea.…

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CHINA WTO



BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL pharmaceuticals companies will find it easier to export to China in the future, following the approval of its membership of the World Trade Organisation, a decision that was achieved by China making a wide range of concessions that will liberalise its commercial laws.…

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INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP



BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW international fishing deals are being developed by the European Union, which should allow fishing businesses to exploit grounds overseas while efforts are made to conserve stocking levels in Europe’s own territorial waters.

EU ministers have been asked to approve a deal negotiated by the European Commission with west Africa’s Guinea-Bissau, which will last until 2006.…

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CHINA WTO



KEITH NUTHALL
IMPORT tariffs payable on fish products exported to China are to be cut, following the striking of an international deal allowing Beijing to join the World Trade Organisation. Officials at the European Commission’s directorate general for trade say that all fish exports to China will benefit from lower tariffs, though the reduction is not as great as for industrial goods.…

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CHINA WTO



BY ALAN OSBORN
CHINA is to open up its vast domestic market to foreign booksellers as part of the agreement reached by the country last week (19/9/01) on the terms of its accession to the World Trade Organisation. In general the deal will allow foreign firms the right to advertise, distribute and retail their products within three years after the date of accession.…

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BY ALAN OSBORN
POTENTIALLY significant export and investment opportunities for British and other EU chemical companies in one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing markets have been opened up by an agreement revealed today (Wednesday) on the terms for China to join the World Trade Organisation.…

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CHINA WTO



BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH and other developed country exporters will be able to take advantage of lower tariffs and abolished restrictive import quotas in the vast markets of China in future, because of the long awaited decision to admit the planet’s fifth largest trading nation to the World Trade Organisation.…

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CHINA WTO THINK PIECE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN the years of the Cultural Revolution, when the bamboo curtain separated the world’s most populous country from the rest of the globe, the idea of sending bulk agricultural exports to China would have seemed laughable. Even today, Chinese export markets buy up a fraction of British farming produce, but in the future, this could change.…

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CHINA WTO



BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA is to reserve the right to maintain its state tobacco monopoly under the agreements that it has struck to secure World Trade Organisation membership, which has been approved after 15 years of often intense negotiations. Tobacco is one of only a limited number of sectors, where China has insisted on maintaining exclusive state trading controls, other industries include cereals, fuels and minerals.…

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