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Keith Nuthall
EUROPEAN bed linen manufacturers have been given six months to request the imposition of renewed anti-dumping duties on cut-priced imports from India, after the European Commission complied with a WTO ruling on the protection and suspended existing tariffs. Geneva had claimed that Brussels had wrongly calculated the duties and EU trade commissioner Pascal Lamy has now ruled that there is currently insufficient information on which to base a fresh assessment leading to an immediate re-imposition of the duties.…

Keith Nuthall
FURTHER details have been released about the deal struck between India and Turkey to resolve the WTO dispute over Turkish restrictions on 19 categories of Indian textile exports. They include the immediate removal of some quantitative restrictions and the reduction of tariffs by September 30.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE COMPLETION of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing in 2005 will usher in a new world order for the industry, in which Europe will have to meet the challenge of unrestricted imports from major suppliers like China, India and Indonesia for the first time.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Council of Ministers has decided to suspend the collection of anti-dumping duties on imports of cotton-type bed linen from India following a determination by the World Trade Organisation that the EU had failed to take all relevant factors into account when it originally imposed the levies in 1997.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INDIAN Leather Garments Association has urged the Finance Ministry in New Delhi to mothball its recently announced reduced all-industry duty drawback rates, as far as the leather and leather product sector is concerned. It claimed that the new duty rates would “adversely affect” exports in India’s IND Rupees 18,000 million leather garment industry.…

KEITH NUTHALL
CONVERSE, the international athletic footwear and apparel brand has been launched in India by Planet Sports. It is known for its helium technology-equipped hi-tech performance footwear, sporty sandals, and the All Star Canvas range. Prices range from IND Rupees 600-2,000.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
INDIA has launched a study to mark and expand its sea boundary by an additional one million square kilometres, (400,000 square miles), beyond its existing exclusive economic zone, the country’s Daily News has reported. A seismic survey is being carried out by the National Institute of Oceanography, with a view to staking a claim by 2005 for extended maritime borders on the east and west coast of India.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
INDIA has launched a study to mark and expand its sea boundary by an additional one million square kilometres, (400,000 square miles), beyond its existing exclusive economic zone, the country’s Daily News has reported. A seismic survey is being carried out by the National Institute of Oceanography, with a view to staking a claim by 2005 for extended maritime borders on the east and west coast of India.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
A REVIEW of additional protective duties erected against spirits imported into India is not to be held by the government in New Delhi, the Press Trust of India has reported.

Instead, the central government has defended the imposition of extra customs duty on imported liquor, saying it was necessary to protect the domestic production industry and has added that it was considering imposing a 24 per cent flat rate on imported spirits kept in warehouses for more than 30 days.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE AIRPORTS Authority of India has granted a 10-year licence to an international consortium to provide ground and passenger handling services at four of the country’s busiest airports, namely New Delhi, Mumbai (Bombay), Chennai (Madras) and Trivandrum.…