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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is teaming up with Japanese-owned Sumitec International to create a US$45 million facility, providing lease financing for Russian companies expanding or modernising their mining equipment. The scheme will especially focus on Siberia and other far-east regions of Russia, which – said a bank memorandum – “are currently under-serviced by the leasing industry.”…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN organisations representing retailers and apparel importers have released a study claiming that the impending January 2005 demise of the country’s clothing import quotas was a "well founded" proposition. The report was commissioned by the US Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel, the American Apparel & Footwear Association, the American Import Shippers Association, the National Retail Federation and the International Mass Retail Association.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE ACQUISITION by the international fund management group Bain Capital of Interfer, a German-based company active in the processing and trading of steel, metal, plastic and ferrous products, non-ferrous metals and alloys, has been approved by the European Commission.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
INDIA’S civil aviation minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy has told the Indian parliament that southern India airports will be made, while plans to upgrade the terminals at Mumbai (Bombay) and Delhi are delayed. Rudy said extension and resurfacing work at Hyderabad airport would be completed next June and the development of Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam airport would finish by September 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SOUTH Asia regional meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has agreed to set up a Central Reporting Agency (CRA), which would evaluate ground and airborne ADS/CPDLC systems performance in an operational trial for the Bay of Bengal area.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Japanese-owned Sumitec International are creating a US$45 million facility, providing lease financing for Russian companies expanding or modernising construction equipment. The scheme will focus on Siberia and other far-east regions of Russia, which – said the bank – “are currently under-serviced by the leasing industry.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CUBA has asked the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to relax a ban on trading its American Crocodile population, which offers commercial quality leather hides. American Crocodile skin leather is high quality, pliable, and decorative.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AQUATIC Animals Commission (of the Office International des Épizooties – OIE – animal health organisation) has reported an outbreak of mikrocytosis amongst oyster beds in the western USA state of Washington. The organisation has reported five outbreaks, in the South Puget Sound and also the San Juan Islands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE) has intensified calls for beef importing countries to refrain from over-reacting to BSE outbreaks. Looking at the recent USA infection, the OIE said it opposes resulting blanket beef bans, saying only specified risk materials and animals should be blocked.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court (ICC) is a step closer to launching its first case, with Uganda President Yoweri Museveni referring the terror wrought by his county’s rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo.…