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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BOOM in counterfeit cigarettes being smuggled into the European Union (EU) is intensifying, according to the latest figures from the European Commission. It says EU customs officials seized 156 million packets’ worth of fake cigarettes in 2006, up 380% on 2005.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

IT comes in a stunning multi-layered Perspex box that combines traditional elements of Japanese design with contemporary materials, the trays sliding out and each lotion held in a delicate, individual jar. But it is the contents of those jars, as well as the spray canister, that really has the scientists at Shiseido Co.’s…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BOOM in counterfeit clothing accessories being smuggled into the European Union (EU) has overshadowed a fall in the trade in fake sportswear, according to the latest figures from the European Commission. It says EU customs officials seized 30 million items of clothing and accessory fakes last year, up 175%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved imposing a definitive 29.6% anti-dumping duty on imports of bicycle saddles exported from China. The council also ordered that earlier provisional duties should be collected, and at the (higher in some cases) rate of the definitive duties, because of the “magnitude of the dumping margins found” and the intense “level of the injury caused to the EU industry” by cheap dumped Chinese cycle saddles.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

WITH demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) surging across the globe, the Persian Gulf is at the epicentre of LNG developments due to its vast gas resources. But the rapid expansion of the sector is not without complications.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT could be said that preparation, preparation and preparation is the best way to deal with the European Union’s (EU) chemical control system REACH, and maybe this is truer for the oil and gas industry than any other, because it is based on, well….preparations.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
IT comes in a stunning multi-layered Perspex box that combines traditional elements of Japanese design with contemporary materials, the trays sliding out and each lotion held in a delicate, individual jar. But it is the contents of those jars, as well as the spray canister, that really has the scientists at Shiseido Co.’s…

BY MARK ROWE, in Stockholm

Interview with Anna Laestadius, Director Global Brand, Absolut Vodka.

*How would you describe the market for Absolut at the moment?

Absolut grew by seven per cent worldwide in 2006, from what we viewed as an already strong position, to a total volume of 89 million litres (2005, 83 million litres).…

BY SUZANNE KOELEGA, in Sint Maarten
AS leaders of various Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries and US President George Bush debated regional security in Washington DC in June, Caribbean nations continue to struggle with serious commercial crime that threatens their regional stability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BOOM in counterfeit cosmetics and perfumes being smuggled into the European Union (EU) is intensifying, according to the latest figures from the European Commission. It says EU customs officials seized 1.5 million counterfeit personal care products in 2006, up 128% on 2005.…