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BY DOMINIQUE PATTON

CHINESE perfume brands are dwarfed by the big brands from the West, mostly because of their origins. Perfume remains a foreign concept and local producers struggle to attain credibility beside their foreign rivals.

A handful of companies have however carved tiny shares in the market thanks to their understanding of local tastes.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

CHINA’S entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2002 and the recent end of quotas in the US and European markets have created gigantic changes in the textile industry worldwide, with developing markets like those in Latin America expected to suffer the most from these shifts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round negotiations appear to have broken down after nine days of tough, but ultimately fruitless negotiations, WTO officials told just-food.com. Diplomats were at 6.30pm GMT filing into a meeting of the WTO trade negotiations committee, expected to decide what happens next.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round will not die, despite this week’s collapse in ministerial talks. That was the overwhelming consensus of opinion at a meeting yesterday (Wed 30 July) of the WTO’s trade negotiations committee (TNC), which makes the formal decisions about the round.…

BY DOMINIQUE PATTON and KARRYN CARTELLE

EAST Asian markets are increasingly important to global haircare manufacturers, with growing prosperity enabling many more women to buy the products they really want for their hair. As a result, major companies really need to pay attention to what east Asian women want.…

By Keith Nuthall

Plans to sweep away some restrictions preventing private universities and higher education service providers from teaching, researching and examining in foreign countries have been put on ice at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

This follows the collapse of negotiations at the July ministerial meeting of the WTO IN Geneva, Switzerland, which had lasted 10 days.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE AUTOPARTS and automotive industries are calling for far tighter world-wide enforcement against counterfeiting, as influential countries meet in Geneva to thrash out more details of a global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

First mooted by the Office of the US Trade Representative in October 2007- and pursued aggressively by the US Chamber of Commerce – Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates have since come on board to try to develop ACTA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NUMBER of counterfeit personal care products seized by European Union (EU) customs teams fell by a quarter in 2008, compared to 2007, the latest European Commission figures claim. There were still many fake cosmetics, perfumes and personal soaps discovered however – 4.58 million items, in 2,134 cases however.…

BY DOMINIQUE PATTON

CHINESE government authorities are taking extreme measures to reduce the city’s infamous air pollution ahead of the summer Olympic Games.

A World Bank report in 2004 ranked Beijing the 13th most polluted city in the world, with an average air quality reading of 89 PM10, well above the guideline level of 50 PM10 (micrograms of inhalable particulate matter per cubic metre).…

BY MARK GODFREY

FOREIGN brands are battling to secure milk supply to tap a market that the food business dared not dream would actually emerge – a sustained increase in sales of dairy products in China. Wang Yue Jing, general manager of the Beijing Cang Da Cow Breeding Agriculture & Commercial Co, said he was offered Chinese Yuan – RMB 300,000-a-year (US$43,960) in trucking subsidies by France’s Danone to supply his daily output of 16 tonnes of milk.…