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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE, in Columbo, Sri Lanka
THE AIRPORT Authority of India, (AAI), is studying ways to speed the clearance of cargo through Indian airports because of concerns that it is taking an excessively long time. V.K. Duggal, Chairman of Scope Air, (Standing Committee on Promotion of Exports-by Air), said at a meeting in Chennai, that the AAI was studying ways of reducing the time cargo remained at airports, notably by providing facilities to major airlines to set up their own X-Ray machines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EAST Asian shipping companies are expected to receive a boost from the ratification by China of the Bangkok Agreement, making one of Asia’s oldest trade accords the world’s largest in terms of market potential.

With China joining the arrangement – which is based on shared trade preferences – it becomes the largest regional trade arrangement, opening up a market with a combined population of more than 2.5 billion, said the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, (ESCAP).…

KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA has launched formal talks at the World Trade Organisation over the imposition by Brazil of anti-dumping duties on its exports of jute bags, which New Delhi claims were erected in contravention of WTO rules.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union and India have agreed that Brussels has until August 14, this year, to implement the rulings of the WTO disputes settlement body, that found that the EU had wrongfully imposed anti-dumping duties on imports of Indian cotton-type bed linen.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union has lost its appeal at the World Trade Organisation against last year’s disputes panel ruling, which censured its imposition of anti-dumping duties on cotton-type bed linen from India. The Appellate Body of the WTO disputes procedure has agreed that the EU did erect duties via procedures that broke international anti-dumping regulations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU’s Scientific Steering Committee has advised that it is “likely” that BSE is present in cattle herds in Albania, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, that it is “unlikely” to be present in India, Pakistan, Colombia and Mauritius, and “highly unlikely” to be in the cattle of Brazil and Singapore.…

BY SWINEETHA WICKRAMANAYAKE AND ANNIE KEY
PROPOSALS are in the pipeline for airport construction projects, expansions and refurbishments throughout India and Sri Lanka. Over the next five years, there are plans to launch at least five new airports throughout the region, although it in anticipated that significant support from their respective governments will be required for them to be a fully fledged success.…

A leader of India’s poultry industry has called on the government in New Delhi to impose a significant customs duty on imported US chicken products, in the face of new anticipated American imports. Ramesh Chander Khatri, president of the Poultry Federation of India, told GlobalMeatNews there was a serious risk of farm and processing plants closures if the Indian government does not raise tariff barriers.…