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Keith Nuthall
AS the European Union (EU) prepares to abolish its remaining restrictive import quotas for textile and clothing products, the latest European Commission statistics confirm that China is best placed to exploit this liberalisation. For 2003, China exported more textile products to the expanded EU, with 10.7% of imports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) high-level group on textiles has adopted a series of recommendations to improve the competitiveness of the EU textiles and clothing industry, in the face of increasing competition after import quotas are abolished in the New Year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SARA LEE Corp., the USA-based maker of Kiwi shoe polish, is suing Pell Inc., a group of supermarket shoe-repair stands in the American mid-west, for importing counterfeit polish from China and selling it under the Kiwi label. Sara Lee suspected a problem and sent private investigators to Pell outlets to buy polish and also purchased some from Pell’s website; it was found to be fake.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE RECENT sharp rise in the price of petrol and petro-chemicals has inevitably threatened prices and profit margins in the paint manufacturing industry but the effect is far from straightforward according to leading figures in the industry. This is because paint and coatings manufacturers do not buy oil directly, but products further down the chain such as vinyl acetate monomer and others where impact of higher crude oil prices tends to be muted.…

BY EDWARD PETERS
CRUISE to the top of Shanghai’s funkiest “shop, slurp and schmooze” conglomerate – a seven-storey, 88-year-old, restored post-renaissance pile dubbed Three On The Bund – and run an eye over the tongue-in-cheek menu at the “New Heights” restaurant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA and the European Union (EU) have struck a customs cooperation agreement that involves the rapid exchange of information and documents between EU and Chinese officials to crack down on trade fraud. Chinese exports to Europe have been beset with fake rules of origin declarations, with goods being funnelled fraudulently through neighbouring Asian countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ABANDONED bid to toughen anti-dumping duties on Chinese coke exports to Europe has been formally scrapped by European Union (EU) ministers. The abolition of a formal review of the Euro 32.6/tonne duties (on coke exceeding 80mm in diameter) comes as ministers consider taking China to the WTO over its export restrictions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has become the first developing country to be among the top five sources of direct foreign investment, along with the USA, Germany, Britain and France, says a new UN report.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ATTACK has been made on the United States, European Union (EU), and other textile importing jurisdictions for waiting until the last minute to abolish most restrictive quotas under the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Textile and Clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ABANDONED bid to toughen anti-dumping duties on Chinese coke exports to Europe has been formally scrapped by European Union (EU) ministers currently much more concerned about supply restrictions of this crucial steel making product. The abolition of a formal review of the Euro 32.6/tonne duties (on coke exceeding 80mm in diameter) comes as ministers consider taking China to the World Trade Organisation over its export ties.…