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INDIAN 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.…
INDIAN BED LINEN LATEST
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union has announced that it will accept the ruling of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation, which found that Brussels had broken international rules on anti-dumping duties in a case regarding Indian bed linen imports.…
COMMERCIAL MOTOR
KEITH NUTHALL
Transport ministers of the 15 EU countries have agreed a regulation
that would require road transport companies to pay the same wages and
benefits to drivers from third countries as they do to EU nationals.
The EU Council said the regulation would put an end to “social
dumping” under which EU road companies have taken on drivers from east
European countries, for instance, at significantly lower wages than those
paid to nationals.…
FOOT AND MOUTH TRADE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S watchdog on animal health diseases has called on national governments to respect the International Animal Health Code, in a bid to reduce the spread of Food and Mouth disease and minimise the damage in trade that over-reactions can cause.…
HEALTH AND SAFETY REPORT
KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union health and safety laws should be extended by a new EU directive to cover the 90 per cent of fishing boats that are currently exempt from them, a report from Spanish socialist MEP Miguélez Ramos has claimed.…
DALLAS/FORT WORTH
BY KATE REW
A DISPUTE over tax revenue for the 7,860 acres of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport has yet to be settled and could hold up a proposed development of services. The airport – owned by Dallas and Fort Worth – wants to develop its services on land in the neighbouring city of Grapevine, but wants its authorities to split revenue from new development equally with its two large neighbours.…
FISHING SUBSIDIES
KEITH NUTHALL
A CONCERTED international effort to clarify and tackle the harm caused by fishing subsidies on the conservation of wild fish stocks worldwide is to be launched following a seminar staged by the United Nations Environment Programme.
Concerns were raised by participants, which included more than 60 national governments, the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, the World Trade Organisation UNCTAD, (the UN development agency), the International Labour Organisation and the OECD.…
EAST TIMOR
Keith Nuthall
AEROPORTOS de Portugal and Nazegacao Aeria de Portugal have taken over the management of East Timor’s new international airport, in the capital Dili, from the Royal Australian Air Force, the country’s United Nations transitional administration (UNTAET) has announced.
The Australian military has been responsible for Comoro Airport, since the arrival of INTERFET peacekeepers in September 1999 led to the evacuation of Indonesian authorities, which had been running island territory.…
WTO ROUND
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE CONFECTIONARY industry has not escaped the onset of globalisation. Indeed, the trade in confectionary and sweet bakery food products has become increasingly international in the past 20 years and there is no sign of this trend reversing.…
SOUTH ASIAN AIRPORTS
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.…