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BY MATTHEW BRACE
BUSINESS has not been simple of late for China’s paint and coatings industry because of the country’s massive economic growth and foreign infiltration, according to Asiacoat.com, the website of the National Paint and Coatings Industry Information Centre. The country produced 1.8 million tonnes of paint for the whole of 2004, and 1.1 million tonnes of architectural coatings, said the Centre in recently released figures.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE INCREASING global demand for mineral resources – especially from Asia – has breathed new life into a remote yet highly and diversely mineralised part of Australia. The island of Tasmania, off the south east coast of the continent, is revelling in a mining boom, the like of which it has not seen for more than a century.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DUMPING duties for silicon metal exports from China should be extended to the 10 countries that joined the European Union (EU) last year without any transitional phasing-in, the European Commission has concluded. Imposing these protective tariffs of 49% on sales to these new southern and eastern European member states “would not likely cause a sudden and excessively negative effect on interested parties, including users, distributors and consumers”, said Brussels, following a detailed review.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
CHINA’S presence at the meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Paris in February was a powerful reminder of how the world’s great economic, trade and regulatory institutions are changing, with consequences that few people probably fully grasp today.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WHILE the consumption of paint, ink and colourings in Belgium is, like that in most other European countries, best described as “stable”, the country’s production industry is eying opportunities to relocate in cheaper regions, such as eastern Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BANGLADESH’S first quarterly results following the abolition of textile trade quotas worldwide have been buoyed by the success of its knitwear industry in exporting to the European Union (EU). Prof Mustafizur Rahman, research director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has been quoted in Dhaka’s press saying that the knitwear sector had actually enabled the country to grow its garment exports from January to March by 9.5% compared with the same period in 2004.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has made the case for governments and inter-governmental organisations increasing their influence over cross-border accountancy bodies, such as the International Accounts Standards Board (IASB). In a green paper on financial services, Brussels said that “the debate about the future governance, funding and political accountability of global standard-setting bodies….are…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has started formal legal proceedings that could lead the European Commission to restricting the amount of China-manufactured T shirts being imported into the European Union (EU). Investigations into Chinese clothing and textile exports to the EU since January 1’s lifting of global trade quotas have revealed a 187% increase in Chinese T shirt consignments, compared with the first quarter of 2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RECEIVED wisdom on the rumbling row over the CAP pits Tony Blair’s neo-liberal agribusiness technicians, armed with computerised high-tech wizardry, against Jacques Chirac’s subsidy-cosseted peasants, idly scratching their pigs. Naturally, the reality is less simple: British farming is efficient, but it is not always as profitable as the French.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
CHINA’S massive economic growth and foreign infiltration is posing significant challenges for China’s paint and coatings industry according to Asiacoat.com, the website of the National Paint and Coatings Industry Information Centre. The country produced 1.64 million tonnes of paint and coatings for the whole of 2003, on average 22%, up from 2002 year-on-year.…