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INDO-PAKISTAN TRADE DEAL DELAYED – BUT INDUSTRY PLAYERS PREDICT PROGRESS ONCE NEW GOVERNMENT IS ELECTED



Serious negotiations in a much-vaunted and debated trade deal between India and Pakistan, which could significantly boost the textile trade between the two neighbours, have been shelved due to the impending Indian elections, WTiN.com has been told.

“The Pakistanis had second thoughts in going ahead while knowing that there will be a change in government [in India] and they could have to start from the scratch,” said Dr Nisha Taneja, a professor at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations in New Delhi, “My expectation is that it would be done four months after [the new government takes over in] May.”…

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RUSSIA TEXTILE INDUSTRY CLAIMS IT WILL NOT BE DAMAGED BY CRIMEAN CRISIS AND ECONOMIC SANCTIONS



 

THE CRIMEA crisis and potential imposition of economic sanctions on Russia will not damage the Russian textile industry, partly because the government in Moscow is likely to respond by erecting textile import restrictions, experts and officials have told WTiN.com.

According to Sergey Nefedov, a spokesperson for Russia’s ministry of industry and trade, the Russian government may increase current 9.9% duties on many textiles, if restrictions are imposed on Russian textile exports by the US or the European Union (EU).…

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RUSSIA TO DEVELOP NEW PACKAGE OF ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING MEASURES



THE RUSSIAN Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring), the federal executive body responsible for combating money laundering and terrorist financing, is considering developing a new package of anti-money laundering measures.

According to Yuri Chikhanchin, the head of Rosfinmonitoring, despite all the state’s efforts in recent years to fight money laundering, it remains a pressing problem.…

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BANGLADESH RMG EXPORTS RISE IS MORALE-BOOSTING: BKMEA



BANGLADESH’S readymade industry expects a 10-15% growth in exports for the current fiscal year ending June, Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) acting president Mohammad Hatem has told just-style.

The first eight months of the fiscal year fetched a “morale- boosting” 16.68% rise to USD16.13 billion compared to last year’s USD13.83 billion.…

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MENA REGION STILL STRUGGLES WITH IP PROTECTION BUT REFORMS ARE BEING DEVELOPED



The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region ranks poorly in intellectual property rights protection and enforcement. While some countries, notably in the Gulf, are gradually improving, political and economic uncertainty in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings is hampering progress in much of the rest of the region.…

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REGULATORY ROUND UP - FOODDRINKEUROPE WARY OF TECHNICAL TRADE BARRIERS IN TTIP TALKS



REPRESENTATIVES from Europe’s food and drinks industry have backed an “ambitious and comprehensive” Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union (EU) and the USA However, they have asked negotiators to find creative ways to deal with technical trade barriers restricting EU-US food and drink commerce, including sanitary and phytosanitary rules.…

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CANADA’S POTASH SECTOR WELCOMES FREE TRADE DEAL WITH SOUTH KOREA



CANADIAN industrial mineral producers look set to benefit from a new free trade deal signed by their government with South Korea. Canada’s key potash sector is welcoming the agreement.

With South Korea being a key developed target market, lacking many mineral resources and needing to fertilize a strong agricultural sector, Canada already has a healthy industrial mineral trade with South Korea.…

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NON-FERROUS METAL TRADE WOULD SUFFER IF US AND EU IMPOSED MAJOR SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA



The impact of any American and European Union (EU) sanctions on the non-ferrous metal trade with Russia could be significant, although US and EU industry associations contacted by Metal Bulletin are thus far refusing to comment on the potential consequences.

The EU and the US last week (Wednesday March 26) agreed in Brussels to work on the imposition of sanctions against Russia and with Russian nationalist activists occupying civic buildings in eastern Ukraine, the diplomatic stakes are again rising.…

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UKRAINE MEAT AND LIVESTOCK SECTOR OPTIMISTIC, DESPITE ONGOING CRISIS



Ukraine’s revolution and subsequent Russian intervention might have disrupted much of its economy and politics, but the country’s meat and livestock sector has so far emerged unscathed. Indeed, the industry is optimistic about its prospects, should its new pro-west government survive and sign an association agreement with the European Union (EU).…

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TTIP DEAL COULD BE SMALLER AND MORE MODEST THAN HOPED, EXPERTS WARN



THE PLANNED trade agreement between the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) could be “smaller” and “more modest” than hoped due to a number of intractable issues – one American lobbyist warned this week. Speaking at an EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) stakeholder briefing in Brussels, Michael Dolan from the labour union International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) referred to the “enormous gulf” between the EU and US positions.…

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