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BY PHILIP FINE

THE US government has signed a bilateral textile pact with Vietnam that gives the south-east Asian country the most generous access to the American market ever granted in an initial two-country agreement, according to a critical American Textile Manufacturers’ Institute (ATMI).…

BY MARK ROWE
Thainox Steel, the largest stainless steel manufacturer in Southeast Asia, expects to boost output this year and increase profits, defying the continuing decline in global stainless steel prices. Output at the company’s plant in Rayong, Thailand, is expected to top 160,000 tonnes, up 10,000 tonnes from last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Bureau (IMB) of the International Chamber of Commerce has claimed that a growing number of Chinese banks are unnecessarily rejecting valid banking documents, hindering the import of steel into the country.

It says that the value of rejected documents relating to steel shipments into China has now exceeded US$100 million.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE SCHOOL textbook and related academic reading material has been a traditionally lucrative and never-ending market for publishers. But the growing phenomenon of e-learning is opening up new dimensions in this field across the globe.

The reason is the sheer scale of future need for education in developing regions, particularly in Asia where the potential numbers of higher education students is staggering.…

BY PHILIP FINE AND KEITH NUTHALL

THE USA government has finalised procedures for framing safeguard protection minimising the impacts on the American textile industry from Chinese imports, with details due to be released soon. US Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Grant Aldonas said requesters of protection would have to provide to CITA (the US Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements) specific information supporting a claim of market disruption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS with many projects inspired by the start of the next 997 years and the last three, the framing of the United Nations’ (UN) Millennium Development Goals was an ambitious enterprise.

Imposing statistically measurable targets for international organisations and national governments in making improvements in global poverty, education, gender equality, health, the environment and education, they have proved tough to attain.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Development Programme is implementing a plan to build 15 digester units to generate biogas from animal manure for home heating and cooking in and around Kazakhstan’s second city Karaganda, population 600,000. The UNDP says that the pilot project exploits an ancient technology that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Textile Manufacturers Institute wants the US government to halt trade negotiations with Vietnam, while it gets an accurate picture of the abuse of its quotas by Chinese exporters illegally trans-shipping goods through their south-east Asian neighbour.…

BY PHILIP FINE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States is calling for countries to offer up more information on their legal pharmaceutical and bulk chemical industries so as to better catch those who are using them for illegal purposes.

In its comprehensive annual report on worldwide drugs activities, the US State Department places some of the blame for many legal chemicals ending up in the hands of illicit drug manufacturers, on government political structures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally proposed the scrapping of anti-dumping proceedings that could have led to the reimposition of duties on Chinese exports into the European Union of magnesium. Brussels has also refused to accept calls that it propose that existing duties are removed retroactively – to June 2002 – when the complaint sparking a review into their renewal was withdrawn.…