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BY MARK ROWE
THE INDONESIA The Indonesian textile market is being hit hard by a black market in used garments made overseas, according to the Indonesian Textile Association. At least 480 million pieces of used garments are shipped into the country every year, from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the United States and European countries, it said.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INDIAN government has launched an investigation that is expected to lead it to impose temporary safeguard duties on imports of industrial sewing machine needles from China. Its action follows a complaint about the effect on Chinese imports on Indian domestic production of the needles by M/s.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to abandon special testing of fish from China, because it no longer considers there is a serious risk of these exports being significantly contaminated with restricted anti-biotics. It has taken the same decision for shrimp shipments from Vietnam and Pakistan.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
PHANTOM ships may become less common on the high seas because of a Commonwealth-based law dating back to 1906, that was recently invoked for the first time in a Hong Kong court.

Section 44 of the Chinese territory’s Marine Insurance Act (MIA) says that a theft liability risk does not attach to a ship’s cargo if the ship’s managers had no intention from the outset of sailing to an agreed destination; it was used to defeat insurance claims made against mainland-China based and state-owned defendant China Insurance Company Limited by the owner of missing cargo worth US$2.5 million aboard the merchant vessel, the Pacifica.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to abandon special testing of certain fish products from China, and shrimp from Vietnam and Pakistan because it no longer considers there is a serious risk of exports being contaminated with banned antibiotics. However, checks are being introduced for Ukrainean milk powder and Brazilian poultry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MALAYSIA is to promote itself as a hub for Muslim food by establishing a halal food conglomerate with companies from China and the Middle East. It is eyeing the lucrative market of 50 million Muslims in China.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
INSTANCES of Phantom ship fraud may decrease in the future because of a law dating back to 1906 that was recently invoked in a Hong Kong court for the first time.

Section 44 of the Marine Insurance Act (MIA), a law replicated in many Commonwealth countries, was used to defeat the owner of missing palm oil cargo worth US$2.5 million aboard the ship the Pacifica that had gone missing in the high seas.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
UNDERWRITERS in Hong Kong have set a precedent by invoking a law for the first time that dates back to 1906, to avoid paying a claim on cargo that disappeared in the high seas aboard a phantom ship.…

BY MARK ROWE
AN INFLUX of cheap products from China is threatening the city of Marikina’s title as the shoe capital of the Philippines. The cheap goods have pushed the city’s shoe industry, which employs about 14,000 people and was one of the top five shoe exporters in Asia, to the brink of collapse.…

BY MARK ROWE
MALAYSIA is to set up a halal food conglomerate with companies from China and the Middle East as part of its campaign to promote the country as a hub for Muslim food, notably meat products. The Malaysian government believes much of the lucrative market for halal food remains relatively untapped; in China alone there are some 50 million Muslims.…