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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) incoming trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has confessed to being “very worried” about the impact in Europe of World Trade Organisation (WTO) textile trade quota liberalisation at the end of this year.

Speaking yesterday (4-10) to a European Parliament hearing ahead of his taking office in November, he quoted reports warning that China could snatch 50% of the world’s textile markets, saying: “This is a huge challenge that we face”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SUSPENSION of chicken product imports into the European Union (EU) of chicken products and birds from Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Pakistan, China, South Korea and Vietnam will remain until March 31, 2005. The extension, (from December), of the bird flu ban was confirmed by the EU’s Standing Committee for the Food Chain and Animal Health.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISK that American cattle are infected with BSE is high, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded, and without changes to US rendering or feeding practice, “the probability of cattle to be (pre-clinically or clinically) infected with BSE persistently increases”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WEST African mining industry will benefit from a Euro 50 million financing package being prepared by the European Investment Bank (EIB). It wants to sink money into two facilities of the West African Development Bank, citing mining as a key beneficiary.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE day I met Kadek he was sitting on the well-worn black saddle of his 50cc Yamaha, shades perched on his nose and obligatory Djarum smouldering on his bottom lip. “Transport?” he asked; the signature call of Kuta Boys who earn pin money from scooting tourists, frugal businessmen and journalists through the traffic-clogged streets of this fabled Bali beach resort.…

BY EDWARD PETERS, in Hong Kong
HONG Kong might be renowned for being one of the safest cities in the world – mugging and other forms of street violence are practically unknown – but that’s not to say that commercial crime doesn’t rear its ugly head in the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, reports Edward Peters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to inject up to US$8 million into the Mauritius-based African Lion II equity investment fund to boost early-stage African mining exploration and development projects. The EIB wants to promote the “development of the small-medium scale mining sector in Africa”, adding African Lion schemes would comply with best environmental practice.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISK that American cattle are infected with BSE is high, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded, and without changes to US rendering or feeding practice, “the probability of cattle to be (pre-clinically or clinically) infected with BSE persistently increases”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BLOW to smaller developing countries far from key American and European markets from the abolition of protective quotas in January could be cushioned by the continuing use of preferential tariffs, a new World Trade Organisation (WTO) report has predicted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned the import of ostrich meat, meat products, live birds and eggs from South Africa. This follows the outbreak of bird flu in two ostrich farms in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. The ban will last until January 2005.…