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BY MARK ROWE

CZECH shoemakers have warned that customers putting cost before style have left the country’s footwear industry unable to withstand an onslaught from Chinese shoe companies, despite the anti-dumping dutioes recently announced by the European Commission. According to the Czech Shoe and Leather Association, 71 million pairs of shoes were produced in the country in 1991 by an industry that employed 35,000 people: today just five million pairs a year are made by 3,000 workers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DEVELOPING countries are failing to exploit the demand for cultural products, says a UNESCO Institute for Statistics report, which notes Britain, the USA and China produced 40% of the world’s cultural trade products in 2002, while Latin America and Africa together accounted for less than 4%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BY KEITH NUTHALL

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A BOOK detailing practical ways in which governments can reduce the costs of dealing with major challenges such bird flu, terrorism and climate change has been released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China’s finance ministry for developing a Clean Development Fund (CDF), funnelling pollution reduction revenues gained from emissions trading regimes into sustainable development. *http://www.carbonfinance.org

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the lowering of maximum import duties that can be imposed on imports into the European Union (EU) of four lines of Chinese footwear products. The move has been negotiated with Beijing because of the EU’s incorporation in 2004 of 10 eastern and southern European countries.…

BY DAVID EIMER, in Beijing

"Build nuclear power, enrich the people", proclaim the billboards at China’s Qinshan nuclear facility in the south-eastern province of Zhejiang. Qinshan, a 120 kilometres south of Shanghai, is the centre of China’s nuclear sector and home to five of the country’s nine operational reactors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT is not always the case that an initiative tackling an mining environmental problem also directly improves the health and safety of miners, but this is true for a new World Bank project to remove methane from Chinese coal mines.…

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

GERMAN leather handbag seller Medici Grimm has failed to secure damages from the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers in a marathon dispute over anti-dumping duties on Chinese imports. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) dismissed a claim that it be paid Euro 168,315 in damages, (or another sum if the judges had decided otherwise), for having been wrongly forced to pay more than DM (Deutschmark) 1.6 million in anti-dumping duties on imported handbags made by China’s Lucci Creation Ltd.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed opening 15 meat and livestock European Union (EU) annual import quotas for American products, including 16,665 tonnes of poultry meat. The move has been negotiated with Washington because of the EU’s incorporation in 2004 of 10 eastern and southern European countries.…