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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has extended an existing suspension of anti-dumping duties on Chinese coke exports to Europe, because of continuing concerns amongst users about a supply shortage. The Euro 32.6/tonne duties (on coke exceeding 80mm in diameter) were suspended in March until this month; now they will be withheld until December 15, 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INSTITUTIONS of the European Union (EU) always say they are getting a handle on the fraud that riddles their operations, but are they? Keith Nuthall looks at the latest annual report from EU fraud-fighters OLAF.

MEASURING fraud is notoriously difficult, given that the aim of this crime is to be as undetectable as possible.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE JAPANESE government has warned that anticipated increased airspace capacity on the route between its Fukuoka air traffic control zone and that of Shanghai, in China, may not be available next year. Reduced vertical separation minimum (RVSM) services are being introduced on flight path A593 between Japan and China, but not on the SADLI section adjoining Chinese and North Korean airspace.…

Keith Nuthall
CIVIL unrest could be sparked in smaller developing countries next year by the abolition of World Trade Organisation (WTO) textile trade quotas and resulting loss of export markets to Chinese competition, new European Union

(EU) trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HONDURAS has won a disputes case at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) with the Dominican Republic being ruled in breach of WTO rules by unfairly restricting the import of Honduran cigarettes. A disputes panel found fault with a special foreign exchange fee, an “economic stabilisation surcharge” and an insistence that importers physically fix within the Dominican Republic tax stamps to packs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has extended to Sri Lanka and Indonesia 58.6% definitive anti-dumping duties imposed in 2003 on imports into the EU of iron or steel tube or pipe fittings manufactured in China, because of concerns about tariff evasion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FORMAL decision has been taken by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to abolish all remaining textile and clothing import quotas for World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries from January 1. It means 210 quotas affecting exporters from Argentina, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand will go.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has made two groundbreaking pledges to improve environmentally sustainable growth. It has promised to stop producing ozone layer depleting substances, such as CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), by 2010 and signed the first Kyoto Protocol clean development mechanism emissions trading project cutting methane gas pollution from coal mines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has identified three priority countries as sources of counterfeit cigarette and other tobacco goods as the focus of special diplomatic efforts to pressure their governments to deal with the problem. China, the Ukraine and Brazil will receive encouragement and advice from Brussels on fighting counterfeiting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has signed the first Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) emissions trading project cutting methane gas pollution from coal mines. The scheme involves the Jincheng Anthracite Coal Group Co. Ltd. capturing coalmine methane for power generation at the Sihe coalmine, Jincheng City, Shanxi province, north-western China.…