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BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA will this year begin a trial of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) technology at three airports in the west of the country, it has told an Asia-Pacific region ADS-B meeting staged by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU is prepared to discuss eliminating any food export subsidies, agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler said at the reopening of the World Trade Organisation’s agricultural liberalisation negotiations, stalled since last year’s debacle at Cancun. *Fischler has visited China promoting EU food exports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POLISH government has withdrawn its complaint against China at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that an increase in imports of Chinese footwear was of such a level to break China’s WTO’s accession agreement. It means scheduled formal talks will not take place in Geneva.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has released a global catalogue of ideal safety signs for accident prevention, fire protection and emergency evacuation, because of concerns that worldwide, confusion sparked by existing signs causes death and injuries. Its move follows the release in the UK of a survey by leading health and safety equipment supplier Seton, that 87 per cent of British office-based professionals cannot identify electrical warning signs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN the European Union (EU) signed up to an Agreement on Textiles and Clothing at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) last Uruguay Round that foresaw the scrapping of import quotas at the start of 2005, it is hard to imagine it viewing the deal as a way to boost production in knitted products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA is the exporter to watch following the abolition of import quotas for textile accessories and footwear this December under the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) agreement on textiles and clothing (ATC). Indeed, a detailed report written for the European Commission on this major liberalisation predicts that not only are Chinese export volumes expected to rise, and developed country production levels to fall, but China is expected to exploit its bulk-manufacturing expertise to seize markets from developing country Asian competitors.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN steel makers have added a surcharge to the price of their output to compensate for surging costs of scrap and other raw materials. Car and appliance manufacturers and other buyers of steel from Canadian mills must now pay an extra CDN$95 per ton.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has re-imposed 49 per cent definitive anti-dumping duties on cut priced exports into the EU of silicon from China. The move follows a European Commission review of the existing tariffs, (erected in 1997), which concluded that there was large “space capacity” in the Chinese silicon industry, leading to “the likelihood of continuation and recurrence of dumping and a recurrence of injury” to EU producers, “should the measures be repealed in respect of the country concerned.”…

BY EDWARD PETERS
DEPENDING on who you ask, Taiwan is either a renegade province or to all intents and purposes an independent nation, albeit one that currently lacks full international recognition. To suggest that it could be a fully functioning country in its own right to anyone in Beijing – the capital of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – is tantamount to treason.…