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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has initiated formal talks – the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation – over import restrictions imposed by the Indian government on a range of products, including live swine, turkeys and the gallus domesticus chicken breed, cattle guts used for casings and bovine semen.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S Footwear Design and Development Institute has launched an INDRupee 40,000 computer software package designed to improve productivity levels for the country’s footwear industry. Called PRISM (Productivity and Resources Information System Manager), the system is supposed to cut the time spent on administrative tasks in a leather-manufacturing unit to about 30 minutes from the existing three days of manual paperwork.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court (ICC) has welcomed the conviction of a band of pirates in an Indian court, as a welcome and rare example of a country prosecuting piracy in international waters. Seven-year labour camp sentences were handed down to 14 Indonesian pirates for hijacking the Japanese-owned Alondra Rainbow off Indonesia in October 1999, along with its aluminium ingot cargo.…

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).…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIAN chicken producers, already been hit by a poultry price fall, are now facing another problem: a rise in the price in their principal feed, maize. There is a particular problem in the south, where the Tamil Nadu’s maize crop could be 50 per cent of earlier projections because of the failure of the country’s northeast monsoon.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has initiated formal talks – the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation – over import restrictions imposed by the Indian government on a range or products including penicillin, its salts, and derivatives, rifampicin, streptomycins or their derivatives, and first aid boxes or kits.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN government is publicly discussing plans to introduce a nationwide uniform sales tax on petroleum products; a decision should be made by this April. Rates currently vary amongst Indian states, with Mumbai’s Maharashtra state levying high 34 per cent rates on diesel and 30 per cent on petrol.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has abandoned a review of European Union (EU) anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of threaded malleable cast-iron tube or pipe fittings from Brazil, the Czech Republic, Japan, China, South Korea and Thailand, after affected exporters failed to assist Brussels its investigators.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
QATAR Airways has revealed it is keen to participate in the leasing of domestic airports in India. Its CEO, Akbar Al Baker, has told the Indian press that a subsidiary was in talks with an Indian company over forming a joint venture to participate in such an initiative.…