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BY ALAN OSBORN

A PROPOSAL by the European Union (EU) trade commissioner Peter Mandelson to impose provisional anti-dumping duties of 19.4 % on imported leather shoes from China and 16.8% on those from Vietnam has sparked protests from the Chinese Leather Association (CLA), caused concern among EU retailers and importers, while bringing uncertainty into the global leather market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TRADE ministers meeting at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong have set a tight timetable for agreeing of the Doha Development Round’s overall goals on agricultural liberalisation, saying these long discussed ‘modalities’ must be approved by April 30.…

BY TAMARA VANTROYEN, in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s book market saw healthy growth this Christmas compared to 2004, according to leading bookstore chains. "Our book sales this Christmas were up several percentage points compared to the same period last year," says Eric Ho, store supervisor at Dymocks booksellers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DIPLOMATS at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) headquarters in Geneva are working to a tight April 30 deadline on agreeing detailed goals to liberalise trade in ‘industrial’ goods, which currently include fish products, despite calls for them to be considered with other foodstuffs in the WTO’s parallel agricultural talks.…

BY DAVID EIMER, in Beijing

TO be beautiful in China is to be fair-skinned and for cosmetics companies, that’s an opportunity to tap the world’s largest emerging market for whitening creams. According to Chinese government figures, China’s beauty and cosmetics market was worth between 42 and 46 billion Yuan (US$5-5.5 billion) last year and a third of that total was spent on whitening products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DIPLOMATS at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) headquarters in Geneva are working to a tight deadline on agreeing detailed goals to liberalise trade in industrial goods such as dyes following the WTO’s Hong Kong summit in December. It agreed an overall agreement (called modalities in WTO jargon) on the industrial goods section of its Doha Development Round should be struck by April 30.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DIPLOMATS at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) headquarters in Geneva are working to a tight deadline on agreeing detailed goals to liberalise trade in industrial goods, including clothing and textile products following the WTO’s Hong Kong summit in December.…

EU SUGAR REFORM MARKET REPORT – CAP

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DECEMBER 2005’s semi-successful World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong means that the sacrifice forced upon the European Union’s (EU) well protected sugar sector the month before will – largely – be worth the pain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DECEMBER 2005’s semi-successful World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong means that the sacrifice forced upon the European Union’s (EU) well protected sugar sector the month before will – largely – be worth the pain. Unlike the previous big WTO meeting, in Cancun, Mexico, trade ministers did not leave in rancour having achieved little.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LATEST and probably last draft communiqué for next week’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong (Dec 13-18) includes the hopeful goal of setting overall targets for liberalising cotton production subsidies worldwide. This has long been the determined ambition of west African states, who want developed world producers, especially the United States, to stop subsidising their cotton industries, payments that depress world prices, impeding exports from low-wage developing countries.…