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BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has been rapped for delaying the establishment of import quotas allowing European Union clothing exporters to sell into this huge emerging market. Under the terms of China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation, quotas should have been created by January.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has delivered a promise to publish liberalised import quotas in April fulfilling its commitments under the WTO’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, including clothing and textile lines accounting for 51 per cent of its total 1992 imports.…

BY MARK ROWE
CHINA is drafting its first law governing the use of biotechnology in an attempt to protect public health and the environment. The law will seek to control the potentially harmful effects of genetically modified organisms, such as crops, in areas including research and imports from abroad.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank is lending US$93.9 million to fund a China Sustainable Forestry Development Project, which aims to protect some of China’s most important remaining old-growth natural forests and associated biodiversity. The money will help protect vital watersheds and reduce the risk of downstream flooding, while ensuring wood supplies can meet the country’s growing demand for timber.…

Keith Nuthall
CHINA has sought to bury grumbling amongst its fellow World Trade Organisation member countries that it has been slow to implement promises made on joining the institution to liberalise its imports, by fulfilling a promise to publish quotas in April under its Agreement on Textiles and Clothing commitments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has sought to bury grumbling amongst its fellow World Trade Organisation member countries that it has been slow to implement quotas, by delivering its promise to publish import quotas in April that fulfill its commitments under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE NATIONAL oil companies of Malaysia and Indonesia and China’s PetroChina are competing to buy up US-based Devon Energy Corp’s Indonesian oil and gas fields. Devon Energy wants to sell US$1 billion in assets after spending more than US$7 billion in takeovers earlier this year.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
JAPAN’S Nippon Mitsubishi Oil Corp. has said that it intends to follow up its planned merger of three group refineries by expanding exports of gas oil, fuel oil and other petroleum products by 50 percent in fiscal year of 2003, the Shipping & Trade news has reported.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union, the USA, China and 87 other countries have agreed new global guidelines on how to rid wood packaging material of wood-eating insects, the United Nations has announced. To guarantee that packaging is pest-free, exporters would need to certify with a globally recognised symbol that the material has been heated or fumigated.…

Keith Nuthall
AN AIR passenger wearing electrical flashing shoes caused officials to cordon off part of San Francisco airport’s departure terminal, when security staff spotted a battery inside when they were put through an X-ray machine. The traveller had arrived from China to make a domestic connection.…