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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE GOVERNMENT of Andhra Pradesh, India, wants to establish 94 leather-based industrial parks. These would include mini 25-acre sites focusing on raw materials processing, medium 100-acre sites handle semi-finished leather, finished leather and part-finished products, plus mega 300-acre sites, for creating export quality products.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A SRI Lankan metal company is to try and exploit the advantages of the Indo-Lankan Free Trade Agreement by exporting its aluminium extrusions to the south Indian cities of Madras, Bangalore, Trivandrum and Cochin.

Lanka Aluminium Industries Ltd is planning to team up with Jindal Aluminium, of India, in its bid to move out its small domestic market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BACK in the last century, it was easy to find economists who liked a little corruption, saying it oiled the wheels of government and commerce. Today, this complacency has gone, with most development specialists saying bribes weaken governments and shrink private investment.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN government is planning to kick-start its shoe component leather industry, as part of a plan to boost the country’s share of the global leather trade to 10 per cent from its current level of around seven per cent.…

Keith Nuthall
INDIA V USA

THE EUROPEAN Union and Bangladesh are to join formal World Trade Organisation talks launched by India, which is challenge changes made by the USA to its rules of origin legislation, that New Delhi claims favour the American and European Union textile industries, unfairly discriminating against Indian producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE Indian cabinet is discussing a new national policy for food processing, which would pave the way for a Processed Food Development Authority. New Delhi is considering the rationalisation of Indian food legislation, currently divided into a plethora of laws, including those relating to the environment, marketing, grading and control.…

KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA has triggered the first stage of World Trade Organisation disputes proceedings in a bid to force the United States to abolish changes made to its rules of origin legislation, that New Delhi claims favour the American and European Union textile industries.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA is planning to open an international airport serving Buddhist pilgrims visiting the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment, in the undeveloped state of Bihar, which would receive flights from around the world, unrestricted by bilateral agreements.

New Delhi and the Bihar state government have identified land for the development, between the religious site of Buddha Gaya and nearby Gaya town.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EU has agreed with a number of sugar-producing ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) countries and separately with India on the supply of cane sugar to European refiners over the next five years. A duty-free quota of 10,000 tonnes has been set for India but may be increased if other supplies fall short.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
NESTLE India Ltd is considering the introduction of chocolate vending machines after the success of a similar initiative for tea and coffee. Indian press reports have quoted an official spokesperson as confirming that the multinational is “studying the feasibility of setting up vending machines for chocolates.”…