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BY MARK ROWE
THAILAND’S leather goods exports have slipped for the third consecutive year, as manufacturers of international brands of leather goods move away from the country to tap cheaper labour costs in China. Exports are expected to fall below last year’s total value of Baht 70 billion (US$1.6 billion), according to the Thai Leather Goods Association, which said that the SARS virus and the Iraq war had further added pressure to the market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A INVESTIGATION has been launched by the European Commission into an alleged boom in imports of prepared or preserved citrus fruits, following complaints from the government of Spain, especially about sales from China. The inquiry could lead to a temporary safeguard duty being erected by Brussels.…

Keith Nuthall
THE CONTINUED threat posed by Chinese shoe exporters willing to fraudulently exploit trade concessions in European Union markets enjoyed by its east Asian neighbours has led to the likely extension of surveillance measures designed to crack down on the problem.…

BY PHILIP FINE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE AMERICAN textile, apparel and fibre industry has planned to launch an "aggressive" lobbying campaign to persuade its government to try and moderate the surge in Chinese exports to the US. It released a report alleging that unless the federal government acts swiftly, China will gain control of between 65 and 75 per cent of the US apparel market and says a planned lifting of quotas in 2005 will destroy the American textile and apparel industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has rebuffed claims that its cotton trading and production subsidy policies harm the export trade of west African countries. It released a statement following the tough attack at the World Trade Organisation on global cotton subsidies by Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaore; he named China as a country needing to liberalise its cotton industry.…

BY PHILIP FINE

IN order to persuade the US government to change its position on Chinese exports, six groups have planned an "aggressive" joint lobbying campaign in Washington. The American Textile Manufacturers Institute, the National Cotton Council, the National Textile Association, the American Fiber Manufacturers Association, the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition and the American Yarn Spinners Association claim that China’s textile and apparel exports to the United States have surged 140 per cent in one year, causing their industries to close more than fifty plants, destroying more than 40,000 American jobs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been authorised to negotiate a cooperation agreement with China on developing peaceful uses of nuclear energy. With the decision following Beijing’s move to become involved in the international fusion energy project ITER, one of the areas of joint-effort between the European Union (EU) and China will be “controlled thermonuclear fusion.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been authorised to negotiate a cooperation agreement with China on developing peaceful uses of nuclear energy. With the decision following Beijing’s move to become involved in the international fusion energy project ITER, one of the areas of joint-effort between the European Union (EU) and China will be “controlled thermonuclear fusion.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has signed an international charter on the capture and storage deep underground of carbon dioxide, also involving Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, Norway, China, Russia, Britain and the US. This Sequestration Leadership Forum is developing schemes to capturing CO2 at source and storing it for thousands of years deep underground, probably in depleted oil and gas wells, with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STORAGE of CO2 deep underground in uneconomic coal seams is one key option being considered by the (carbon) Sequestration Leadership Forum, which has just been joined by the European Commission. Other members are Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, Norway, China, Russia, Britain and the US.…