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SOUTH KOREA TEXTILE AND CLOTHING COMPANIES TO ESTABLISH BASE IN ETHIOPIA
BY JONATHAN DYSON, IN ADDIS ABABA
The leader of Ethiopia’s clothing and textile sector has claimed eight South Korean companies are to open textile and garment plants in his country, in a new industrial park close to the capital Addis Ababa.…
ASIA PACIFIC MEN'S GROOMING MARKET GROWS ON BACK OF CULTURAL ACCEPTANCE
BY MARK ROWE
The cosmetics market for Asian men is thriving where other sectors struggle. "Men’s skin care products appear to exist in a different economic world to much of rest of the industry," said Diyva Sangameshwar, a spokeswoman for market researchers Euromonitor based in Singapore.…
NORTH KOREA KNITWEAR COULD BE HIDDEN STRENGTH OF COMMUNIST HERMIT KINGDOM
BY MARK ROWE
NORTH Korea, the world’s most secretive state and the focus of many international diplomatic headaches, has an unexpectedly burgeoning sector: the country’s knitwear industry.
As one might expect for this tightly and centrally planned economy, the knitting industry is controlled by the central communist government: all knitting mills and factories are controlled by the Knitting Industry Management Bureau.…
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BY HELEN CLARK, IN HANOI
Fast food consumption has risen quickly in Vietnam. With rapid economic growth in the past decade or more and a rising middle class in the cities with more disposable income many foreign chains have opened up in recent years.…
SOUTH KOREA DISMISSES IMPACT OF PORK FIRM'S LOSSES CLAIM
BY JENNIFER CHANG, IN SOUTH KOREA
THE KOREA Trade Commission (KTC) has dismissed fears for the future of South Korean pork processing after an indigenous company blamed falling sales on cheap European imports following a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU).…
EU ROUND UP - BRUSSELS TO DELAY CARBON PERMIT AUCTIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will postpone auctioning pollution permits sold under its emissions trading scheme (ETS) to potential further price falls, but has not decided how many allowances will be sold later. ETS permit prices are already depressed as Europe’s economic woes left oil and gas users with unused rights to emit carbon.…
CHINA'S HINTERLAND AIRPORTS ARE LOSING MONEY BUT A STRONGER NEW BREED MAY BE EMERGING
BY MARK GAO, IN BEIJING
More than two-thirds of Chinese airports, most in smaller regional centres rather than China’s mega-cities, last year lost a combined Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY2 billion (USD313 million). Yet there will be no let up in the construction of new regional airports in China, given government has dubbed the civil aviation sector as a "strategic industry".…
EU NEEDS BETTER POLICY COORDINATION IF IT STILL WANTS CAR MANUFACTURING IN EUROPE
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
THE EUROPEAN Commission, the European Union’s (EU) executive body, is handicapping Europe’s automotive sector with unrealistic carbon reduction demands, while risking more mid-market import competition with free trade deals, the chief of Europe’s auto industry has warned.…
SOUTH AFRICAN RARE EARTHS DEPOSITS BEING EYED FOR EXPLOITATION
BY BILL CORCORAN, IN CAPE TOWN
SOUTH Africa has deposits of rare earth elements (REEs) to rival that of Australia, and the country is poised to take advantage of this increasingly strategic resource, according to Mintek, the government’s mineral technology organisation.…
EU PORK EXPORTERS BENEFIT FROM SOUTH KOREA TRADE AGREEMENT
BY KITTY SO
THE EUROPEAN Commission has hailed a 120% increase in European Union (EU) pork exports to South Korea in the first year of a free trade agreement (FTA) that reduced tariffs for pigmeat.
Speaking to the Meat Trades Journal, Roger Waite EU agriculture spokesperson said: "It seems as if a good part of it may be linked to the FTA…"
A European Commission communiqué said pork exports to South Korea had "grown faster than average" compared to other exports, citing almost Euro EUR200 million in new trade for pork alone.…