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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDIAN government has sought formal talks at the World Trade Organisation with Argentina over what it claims is discriminatory treatment of its pharmaceutical exports. The south Americans insist that for medicines to enter Argentina, they must have been made in a country included on one of two official Buenos Aires lists, linked to specific inspection regimes.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE, in Columbo, Sri Lanka
THE PRESIDENT of the Indian Footwear Components Manufacturers’ Association has asked the New Delhi government to set up a Rupees 1,000 million technology modernisation fund to help the sector “face international competition and gain confidence.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SHIPPING industry is looking forward to the anticipated accession of China to the World Trade Organisation, which after 15 years of often tortuous negotiations, is likely to be rubber stamped this autumn and become reality next Spring.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE KEE Pharma company, of India, has unveiled a new palate-friendly iron pill, Poliron, in chocolate and mixed fruits flavours. Iron pills are generally bitter to the taste, but important in India, where 55 per cent of the population, largely women and children, suffer from anaemia.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE HIGH production cost of sugar within India is a major stumbling block to the export of an existing large surplus, the country’s Minister of Food and Civil Supplies, Shanta Kumar has said at a press conference.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of developing countries has said that progress towards creating differential pricing arrangements for pharmaceuticals should not undermine the right of their governments to authorise the emergency production of drugs, as well as parallel imports of low cost lines.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
PETRONET LNG Ltd., a consortium of four Indian state-owned oil and gas companies, is to invite global engineering, procurement and construction bids for its Rs18 billion, 2.5-million-ton liquefied natural gas re-gasification plant project at Kochi, Kerala. A senior official has told India’s Financial Express that a contractor would be selected by January 2002.…

KEITH NUTHALL
SUPERHOUSE Leathers Ltd, of India, the manufacturers of the Allen Cooper brand, have launched a Moccasins range, with shoes made of a leather upper bent and rounded at the bottom, which is then bonded with the sole. They cost IND Rupees 1,499.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
DEMAND for ostrich leather, particularly from south Asia, has been one the result of the recent spread of foot-and-mouth disease across the globe, notably to Britain, Argentina, Uruguay, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The problems have created a scarcity in the market for bovine leather and there have been industry reports from India saying that there has been a resulting good demand for printed leathers, especially ostrich leather print, reflecting positive opinions that it is distinctive and elegant.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE, in Columbo
THE FOOTWEAR group Floresheim has ended its leather contract with India, warning that it would not renew a purchase deal unless the Government in New Delhi takes measures to improve treatment of animals, the Press Trust of India has reported.…