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BY MARK ROWE
THAILAND’S shoemakers have been told they must create a niche market of intricately designed products or rise losing their global market share to China and Vietnam where costs are lower. The Thai Footwear Association said the country should make a virtue of the fact its shoemakers had greater skills than their Asian counterparts.…

Keith Nuthall
THE CONTINUED threat posed by Chinese shoe exporters willing to fraudulently exploit trade concessions in European Union markets enjoyed by its east Asian neighbours has led to the likely extension of surveillance measures designed to crack down on the problem.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved a hybrid trade deal negotiated between the European Commission and Vietnam, which while focusing on textile sales, also includes a pledge by both parties not to apply non-tariff barriers to mutual imports and exports of wines and spirits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency has issued US$43.2 million in guarantees to Singapore’s SembCorp Utilities to cover investment in the construction, operation and maintenance of a 716.8 megawatt combined cycle, gas-fired power plant in Vietnam, near Saigon.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has formally approved the three year textile trade deal struck between the European Commission and Vietnam. Extending and amending an existing agreement until 2005, it includes the EU increasing the quotas it applies to Vietnamese textile and clothing exports.…

Keith Nuthall
THE USA government signed a bilateral textile pact with Vietnam that gives the south-east Asian country generous access to the US market. The American Textile Manufacturers’ Institute is angry at its government for granting Vietnam an estimated US$2 billion (Pounds 1.24 billion) in access to a domestic sector that saw 3,000 jobs lost in the last quarter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency has issued US$43.2 million in guarantees to Singapore’s SembCorp Utilities to cover investment in the construction, operation and maintenance of a 716.8 megawatt combined cycle, gas-fired power plant in Vietnam, near Saigon.…

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).…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representative office has published the details of the unconfirmed textile trade agreement that the USA has negotiated with Vietnam. It is available on the Internet at

http://www.ustr.gov/regions/asia-pacific/2003-04-25-Vietnam-textiles-summary.pdf…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has agreed to extend until December 2004 an existing agreement with Vietnam on preventing fraud in the international trade in footwear products. The deal in effect extends this Memorandum of Understanding agreement by two years, allowing time for the two sides to review the controls, if necessary.…