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Keith Nuthall
AS the European Union (EU) prepares to abolish its remaining restrictive import quotas for textile and clothing products, the latest European Commission statistics confirm that China is best placed to exploit this liberalisation. For 2003, China exported more textile products to the expanded EU, with 10.7% of imports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MIGROS Turk AS, Turkey’s largest food retailer in Turkey, has received a US$8.3 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to create a food hypermarket and mall in Macedonia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio has visited Syria, pressing its government to reform its gas infrastructure and regulation so it can play a key role in creating a Middle East-to-Europe network. The European Commission sees Syria as a key link, notably in the so-called Arab pipeline, linking Egypt to Syria and the Lebanon through Jordan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TURKISH leather, clothing and textile producers have “come under intense imports pressure” following the third stage of liberalisation under the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, Turkey has claimed. A letter to the WTO Textiles Monitoring Body said these industries had already “been negatively affected” by quota liberalisation, prior to January 1’s comprehensive liberalisation under the ATC.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank will lend US$65 million to Turkey petrol importer and retailer Opet Petrolcülük, helping it build a marine terminal and tank storage facility, while buying another small terminal. This would help expand Opet’s retail distribution network.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TURKISH textile and clothing producers have “come under intense imports pressure” following the third stage of liberalisation under the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, Turkey has claimed. A letter to the WTO Textiles Monitoring Body said: “Especially knitwear, preparation and spinning of textile fibres, leather, fur, yarn, woven and the clothing industry as a whole have been negatively affected.”…

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
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 MARK ROWE
MENTION Albania and money, and the image that comes to mind is of the extraordinary pyramid schemes that gripped the country in the mid-1990s as the country stepped out into a post-Stalinist dawn. Albanians poured their assets into the schemes, with an enthusiasm that was as remarkable as it was misguided.…

BY MARK ROWE
Mention Albania and money and one is drawn back to the extraordinary pyramid schemes that gripped the country in the mid-1990s as it emerged into a post-Stalinist dawn. Albanians poured in funds with an enthusiasm as remarkable as it was misguided.…