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THE NEXT 12 months will be crucial in the positioning of Greenland as a major source of rare earth metals (REM). A general election on March 12, could give a pro-independence, pro-mining party a renewed mandate in the Danish island’s autonomous government.…

EUROPEAN and American car manufacturers and parts makers have welcomed the launch of negotiations to forge a comprehensive free trade agreement between the US and the European Union (EU). Responding to an announcement on Tuesday – underlined by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address on Tuesday – Ivan Hodac, secretary general of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), believes that “an eventual EU-US trade deal will promote production in both economies.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has lifted a ban on the import of live pigs from the US, showing the European Union (EU) is willing to compromise over its interests in the meat and livestock sector, just days before EU trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht travels to America for talks on a possible EU-US free trade agreement.…

THE SECRETARY General of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) has detailed how the world is woefully unprepared to fight the scourge of counterfeit medicines that can harm or even kill patients. Kunio Mikuriya was speaking at the opening session of a Conference on the Illicit Trafficking of Fraudulent Medicines, held at the Vienna International Centre, Austria, on February 14.…

NEPAL’S ready-to-wear garment sector wants to diversify its target markets away from a past reliance on America, prompted a slump in exports, which have fallen by more than half over the past five years. The Garment Association Nepal (GAN) general secretary Ashok Kumar Agrawal blamed decreasing demand from American consumers and told just-style the industry is hoping to “diversify export markets to Australia, Canada and Japan, making use of duty free privileges while increasing exports to the EU,” where they enter duty free under the Everything But Arms deal.…

INDIAN garment exporters are looking to buyers in new countries to compensate for drops in orders from struggling, traditional western markets, Dr A Sakthivel, chairman of the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has told just-style.

“Since the last two years when our conventional markets in Europe, the United States and Canada are facing economic problems, we have started to look for new markets in South America, South Africa, Japan and Israel,” he explained.…

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China has a booming e-commerce sector, and growing online drinks retailers are building more warehouses nationwide. They need to balance ‘just-in-case’ and ‘just-in-time’ demands and also the need for flexibility versus low inventory. Negotiating these logistical pressures is vital in this huge yet highly fragmented market.…

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project called Agrocos has successfully isolated new chemicals from plants that can be used in the cosmetics sector, the European Commission has said. Noting “Agrocos looks set to make available commercially viable products for the agricultural and cosmetics industries”, the Commission said 11 compounds and 270 extracts have been recorded in databases.…

PURCHASING cosmetics through business-to-consumer (B2C) group-buying websites offering national and local discount deals from third party vendors is catching on in key markets worldwide and positively blossoming in China, but with different nuances according to location. Cosmetics deals are popular on these sites throughout Asia, according to Shanghai, China based Dataotuan.com…

THE WORLD it seems, it becoming a little less keen to chew gum (and blow bubbles with it): this confectionery sub-sector that grew by a healthy 7.7% in 2011 saw growth slowing to 1.7% in 2012. It is the quietest sales period since the chewing gum segment (that includes bubble gums) posted a fall of 2.5% from USD23.2 billion to USD22.44 billion during the recession from 2008 to 2009, according to figures from market researcher Euromonitor International.…