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BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT might seem a long way from South Hams District Council’s public tendering process to world trade negotiations in Geneva, but thanks to the globalisation process that upsets so many protesters with metal rods stuck through their noses, the two are actually closely related.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to abandon special testing of fish from China, because it no longer considers there is a serious risk of these exports being significantly contaminated with restricted anti-biotics. It has taken the same decision for shrimp shipments from Vietnam and Pakistan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to abandon special testing of certain fish products from China, and shrimp from Vietnam and Pakistan because it no longer considers there is a serious risk of exports being contaminated with banned antibiotics. However, checks are being introduced for Ukrainean milk powder and Brazilian poultry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank’s International Finance Corporation will provide US$30 million to help LASMO Oil Pakistan Ltd, a subsidiary of Lasmo plc, (acquired by Italy’s ENI SpA in 2001), to develop Pakistan’s Bhit natural gas field, 150 km north of Karachi, at a cost of US$283 million.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE LOCATION of Afghanistan’s national museum in a southern Kabul suburb must have been idyllic when it opened in 1931, set against a pastoral backdrop of farmland and mountains. The museum was once one of the richest cultural repositories in the world, home to a collection of the most elegant antiquities from the Ashokan, Greek, Buddhist, Zoroastrian and Muslim periods.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has suspended anti-dumping duties on imports of cotton-type bed linen from Egypt, ahead of the February 28 date when they were due to lapse, signalling it is unlikely to press for their renewal.…

BY MARK ROWE
SHIPPING live prawns in a hibernated state to Europe is being promoted in Thailand as a means of combating increased export competition from regional neighbours. Thai exporters are being encouraged to explore the possibility of shipping live tiger prawns to Europe by keeping the cargo in hibernation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has struck a trade deal with Pakistan that will reward its support for the west in the war in Afghanistan by scrapping EU import tariffs on Pakistani clothing exports and increasing import quotas by 15 per cent.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning new trade measures to help Pakistani exports, specifically targeting clothing and textiles, which account for three-quarters of the country’s sales to the EU. In a move linked to helping Pakistan deal with the current war on its Afghan neighbour, the plan is to remove all tariffs on clothing and to increase quotas for Pakistani textiles and clothing by 15 per cent.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States has been told it should scrap or amend safeguard restrictions on the amount of combed cotton yarn that can be imported from Pakistan, by the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation’s disputes settlement procedures.

Washington had contested an earlier judgement that it had broken WTO rules in the way that it imposed the trade barrier, but key elements of its case were rejected by the appeals body.…