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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE CHINESE state-owned Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) has asked the Indian government permission to set up a 12-million tonne aluminium smelter and captive power plant worth INDRupees 17.5 billion (US$360 million). Of this investment, INDRupees 5.25 billion (US$110 million) would be in equity, with a 50 per cent foreign equity element, and the remaining INDRupees 12.25 billion (US$250 million) would be from international investors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to lift a ban on another two Chinese food imports, which was imposed over concerns about the misuse of anti-biotics. The EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has approved the health of Chinese crayfish and surimi.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Textile Manufacturers Institute (ATMI) is urging its government to take action against Indonesia’s ban on textile imports from all countries. The ATMI said the move flies in the face of international rules and its chairman, Van May, says a fair response would be for the United States to immediately prohibit all imports of Indonesian textile goods which totalled US$350 million last year, until the ban is lifted.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal, Canada

THE EFFECTS of September 11 have left their mark on the relationship between air traffic control national service providers (ANSPs) and their customers. The economic fall-out from the terrorist attacks now defines much of the dialogue between ANSPs, airlines and airports.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE “CE” mark, denoting that a product was made in the European Union, is being abused by unscrupulous manufacturers and traders and is giving legitimate companies a bad name according to delegates at a recent international forum on market surveillance.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA and KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOVERNMENT of Sri Lanka is embarking on a comprehensive survey of the country’s clay resources as demand grows thanks to an official policy of promoting a home-grown ceramics industry, which is already the largest mineral-based sector in this south Asian country.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London, PHILIP FINE, in Montreal, and MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

WITH a new crackdown on counterfeiting being prepared by the

European Commission, some industry watchers will be surprised to hear that soft drinks is one the sectors that Brussels thinks needs close attention.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN consumers are being ripped off by fraudsters making illegal use of the CE mark according to evidence submitted to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The CE mark denotes that a product was made in the European Union (EU) and conforms with EU safety legislation.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
WHEN IATA’s Director General and CEO, Pierre J Jeanniot, spoke at the opening of his organisation’s 58th AGM and the World Air Transport Summit in Shanghai on June 3, 2002, he lamented the industry’s losses of US$12 billion the previous year.…

BY MARK ROWE
INDONESIAN textile producers have warned that their industry faces thousands of job losses as smuggled used garments flood the Indonesian market. The past few months have seen a rise in smuggled goods from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the United States and some European countries.…