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BY MARK ROWE

LEAKED NATO documents have indicated that the prime minister and senior officials in Kosovo have close links to organised crime. That presents a daunting challenge to law enforcement officials, but their task is made more problematic by the pervasive nature of corruption in the country.…

BY LEE ADENDOORF, KEITH NUTHALL and MJ DESCHAMPS

EUROPEAN Union (EU) governments are facing a political crossroads on a key question whose answer will have an important impact on the EU knitwear sector – both manufacturers and retail. That is the issue of rules of origin and whether there should be an EU-wide law that says clothing and accessories (plus a wide range of other manufactured goods) should be sold with labels saying which country they are made in, if they are imported from outside the EU.…

BY LEE ADENDOORF, ALYSSA MCMURTRY, MAKKI MARSEILLES, and KEITH NUTHALL

GLOBAL olive oil manufacturing is on a roll, with the International Olive Council (IOC) saying 2009-10 world production was 3.02 million tonnes, a season-on-season increase of 354,500 tonnes (+13%). This would be the second best olive oil production year ever, next only to the record of 3.17 million tonnes produced in 2003/04.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

The Turkish Clothing Manufacturers Association (TGSD) has said delicate negotiations are under way to ensure every part of Turkey’s apparel industry supports a potential widespread introduction of anti-dumping duties on clothing and textile imports. These would be imposed on deliveriesfrom countries not having free trade agreements with Turkey, which excludes the European Union (EU), but includes many key emerging market suppliers, such as Bangladesh and Cambodia.…

BY ANDY HOLDER

THE INTERNATIONAL gold market may be relatively small, but the metal’s rapid rise in price in the past 18 months to over US dollars USD1,400/oz(up from USD900) has given fraudsters the opportunity they need to tempt investors with some pretty audacious offers to join the ‘gold bug’ club.…

BY SAMI HALABI

BEFORE the county’s 1975-90 civil war Lebanon was an oil transit nation, with pipelines running through its territory from Saudi Arabia, and export terminals on its shores. Today, the country cannot even produce the electricity it needs to power its cities and is completely dependent on imports of oil and gas for energy.…

BY SAMI HALABI

THE KNITTING industry in Turkey is undergoing a paradigm shift as its business model moves from one that relied on margins to one that is dependent on quantity. The economic downturn of late 2008 and 2009 left the industry in a situation with stock orders down to a minimum and the industry having to adapt to a new market dynamic.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

Kurdish Iraq tobacco market is Middle East black market hub

International tobacco companies entered Kurdish Iraq after the US-led invasion. But political instability has made this a tough market to operate in. Black market trades thrive. And there are a wide variety of brands from around the world available.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

OVER the past five years Egypt has cemented its position as a fashion hub for European and American high street brands, with average annual garment exports earning the country US dollars USD2 billion, yet domestic labels are generally not exported and high-end clothing manufacturing is still very niche.…

BY MARK GODFREY

FINANCING is the crunch issue in Armenia’s newly announced plans to build a new unit at its Metsamor nuclear power plant. The VVER (water-water energetic reactor) 1000 reactor to be built in a 50/50 joint venture with Russia’s Atomstroyexport will, according to Armenian government sources, be operational by 2018.…