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BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA’S exporters of grain oriented electrical sheets will be temporarily exempted from European Union (EU) anti-dumping duties (of between 40.1 and 14.7 per cent) on sales to the new 10 EU member countries, to avoid “sharp price increases”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is expected next month to rubber stamp plans to lend two Russian SUAL group companies US$75 million to expand production at a bauxite mine and begin work on developing a related alumina refinery and aluminium smelter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is expected next month to rubber stamp plans to lend two Russian SUAL group companies US$75 million to expand production at a bauxite mine and begin work on developing a related alumina refinery and aluminium smelter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BULGARIA has announced it will build a second nuclear power plant to replace the outdated Kozloduy power station, which the European Union (EU) insists should be closed by 2006. Construction will take place at Belene, in northern Bulgaria where work started on building a 1,000-megawatt plant in 1987, but ceased in 1991 following environmental campaigns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has bought a minority stake in leading Russian mineral water company JSC Narzan, in a combined US$12.25 million loan and equity investment. The money will help Narzan expand its bottling capacity, develop new products and supply working capital.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EXPENSIVE overflight fees charged on airlines crossing Siberia on long-haul trips are to fall following a wide-ranging trade deal struck between the European Union (EU) and Russia. It included a pledge by Moscow to revamp the charging system for EU airlines flying over Siberia, making it cost-based, transparent and non-discriminatory by 2013.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to waive anti-dumping duties imposed on imports from Russia of (with silicon content less than 99.99 per cent by weight) for three cooperating exporters, owned by the SUAL Holding Group. Its SKU LLC, of Sual-Kremny-Ural, and ZAO KREMNY, Irkutsk, have formally promised to maintain their silicon prices at a level that is acceptable to the European Commission, which has as a result proposed that they be exempted from the duties; the decision would also apply to their related trader ASMP GmbH, of Switzerland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA’S exporters of grain oriented electrical sheets will be temporarily exempt from European Union (EU) anti-dumping duties on their sales to the 10 countries joining the EU this weekend, under a proposed from the European Commission. It has responded to concerns from the exporters that the sudden application of the duties to these eastern and southern European countries would trigger “sharp price increases” making “the product prohibitively expensive for electromagnetic appliances and in installations such as power and distribution transformers”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Spanish utility Enagás SA up to Euro 450 million to reinforce and extend the country’s gas transmission network and reserve facilities. These improvements would cover most of the country and are included in the 2002-2011 Spanish National Energy Plan.…