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MICROCHIP INCORPORATION FEATURE
BY PHILIP FINE
A TINY wire antenna and a computer chip the size of a piece of glitter will be imbedded into most retail product materials in the next few years, if all goes as
planned by those currently involved in developing a revolutionary tracking system.…
CANADA PROFITS
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN fishing industry is currently enjoying a significant upswing in profits thanks to a surge in fish and seafood consumption and new accessible global fish sources. Three of the country’s main processors in its often hard-pressed Atlantic provinces have reported strong profits despite a decline in traditional fish catches.…
DRUG PRECURSORS
BY PHILIP FINE
IN its comprehensive annual report on worldwide drugs activities, the US
government is asking foreign countries to be more transparent with information on
their legal chemical industries that might be useful in controlling the production and trade in illicit drug precursors.…
MALAYSIA FEATURE
BY MARK ROWE
IT is only four letters long but for a little word AFTA is having a big impact on the Malaysian tobacco industry. AFTA, the impending free trade block for south-east Asia, is forcing the Malaysian tobacco industry, widely regarded as having the most sophisticated (and expensive) leaf production and manufacturing infrastructure in the region, to radically overhaul the way it goes about its business.…
DAMAGED GOODS DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved European Commission proposals that anti-dumping duties levied on imports of ferro-silico-manganese from China and the Ukraine should be reduced when consignments of the metal have been damaged before being admitted into the European Union (EU).…
INDIAN LEATHER FAIR
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S four-day 18th International Leather Fair, in Chennai (Madras), this month (Feb) concluded INDRupees 5,090 million (US$106.8 million) worth of business, said its organisers. Staged at the Chennai Trade Centre, it attracted more than 8,000 visitors, said the Indian Trade Promotion Organisation, of whom five per cent were from abroad, including representatives from 20 countries, notably from Italy, Germany, Spain, Brazil and China.…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE’S Suez water company and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have launched a joint drinking water improvements programme that will provide around Euro 300,000 in its first three years and will initially concentrate on the Volga-Caspian region.…
DAMAGED CHEMICAL DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that anti-dumping duties levied on imports of ferro-silico-manganese from China and the Ukraine should be reduced when consignments of the metal have lost value from damage incurred before being admitted into the European Union (EU).…
CHINA FEATURE
BY EDWARD PETERS
FOR a snapshot of the current state of the Chinese tobacco industry, casual observers need go no further than the massive adverts blanketing some of the main highways in Shanghai, which is generally considered to be the most go-ahead city in the People’s Republic (PRC).…
DAMAGED CHEMICAL DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that anti-dumping duties levied on imports of ferro-silico-manganese from China and the Ukraine should be reduced when consignments of the metal have lost value from damage incurred before being admitted into the European Union (EU).…