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BY MARK ROWE
IN times of conflict, cultural property, such as archaeological sites, works of art, museums and monuments, can also suffer grievously at the hands of opposing military and guerrilla forces. In recognition of this, such objects are accorded protection by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-wide customs initiative has netted two huge hauls of fake branded cigarettes smuggled in from China. The consignments, totalling more than 17,203,000 cigarettes, were seized at Belgium’s major port, Antwerp, during a two-week exercise involving customs authorities, the EU anti-fraud office, OLAF, and the European Commission’s taxation and customs directorate.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MEMORANDUM of understanding has been agreed between the European Union (EU) and China, aimed at improving health controls on the Euro 3 billion’s worth foodstuffs traded between them. Among the mutual pledges are timely alerts of local food health problems, and the creation of standing communication channels between food health safety experts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN plastics companies paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam Hussein regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. A report said they paid Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies overall.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers this month (November) resume their discussions on the medium-term (2007-13) budget for EU institutions, they have a lot of balls to juggle, including farm subsidies, the infamous British rebate, overall economic competitiveness and future EU research spending.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain stainless steel fasteners and associated parts (bolts, nuts, etc) from Taiwan (23.6%), China (27.4%), Indonesia (24.6%), Thailand (14.6%) and Vietnam (7.7%), with lower duties for some companies cooperating with a European Commission inquiry into the problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has renewed anti-dumping duties imposed upon imports into the EU of steel ropes and cables from India (30.8%), China (60.4%) including those routed through Morocco, Ukraine (51.8%) including Moldova-routed products and South Africa (38.6%).…

BY MARK ROWE
OVERSHADOWING the Japanese paint industry in recent years has been the overall shape of the country’s economy. The stagnation of the economy lasted for much of the 1990s but it showed signs of recovery in the first half of fiscal 2004-2005, driven by solid exports and strong corporate capital investment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-wide customs initiative has netted thousands of counterfeit articles of knitted clothing manufactured from China. Operation Fake was two-week exercise involving customs authorities, the EU anti-fraud office, OLAF, and the European Commission’s taxation and customs directorate, and took place this May, although its results have just been released.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNLIKELY prospect of China – one of the world’s least environment-friendly countries – running a green Olympics has come closer to reality through an agreement with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It has struck a deal with the Beijing Organising Committee for the (2008) summer games (BOCOG), involving the UN agency boosting public awareness of air, water and noise pollution plans focusing on transport, landscaping and waste disposal.…