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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN research network has developed a quality offset press that it claims is flexible enough to thrive in the plastic films, paper or aluminium packaging sectors. The independent EUREKA network’s ‘variable sleeve offset printing’ project had to reduce the cost of machine parts printing variable sizes “as there are no standard sizes in packaging applications”, said a project memorandum.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDIAN government has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), complaining about anti-dumping duties imposed by the European Union (EU) in 2000 on hot-rolled steel coils. India wants formal talks with Brussels, claiming discrimination over the EU’s failure to impose anti-dumping duties on the same products from Egypt, Slovakia and Turkey, despite a European Commission investigation showing they were dumping coils and damaging EU producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DOMINANCE of fossil fuels in energy production is set to continue for the next 30 years, even growing a little, the European Environment Agency (EEA)’s latest ‘environmental signals’ report has predicted. Despite the European Union’s (EU) efforts to promote renewable energy, it is “not expected to raise its share significantly” of energy production sources, while “nuclear energy is projected to decline”, it predicted.…

Keith Nuthall
AS the European Union (EU) prepares to abolish its remaining restrictive import quotas for textile and clothing products, the latest European Commission statistics confirm that China is best placed to exploit this liberalisation. For 2003, China exported more textile products to the expanded EU, with 10.7% of imports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank will lend US$65 million to Turkey petrol importer and retailer Opet Petrolcülük, helping it build a marine terminal and tank storage facility, while buying another small terminal. This would help expand Opet’s retail distribution network.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MIGROS Turk AS, Turkey’s largest food retailer in Turkey, has received a US$8.3 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to create a food hypermarket and mall in Macedonia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TURKISH leather, clothing and textile producers have “come under intense imports pressure” following the third stage of liberalisation under the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, Turkey has claimed. A letter to the WTO Textiles Monitoring Body said these industries had already “been negatively affected” by quota liberalisation, prior to January 1’s comprehensive liberalisation under the ATC.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio has visited Syria, pressing its government to reform its gas infrastructure and regulation so it can play a key role in creating a Middle East-to-Europe network. The European Commission sees Syria as a key link, notably in the so-called Arab pipeline, linking Egypt to Syria and the Lebanon through Jordan.…

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
WHEN the European Union (EU) signed up to an Agreement on Textiles and Clothing at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) last Uruguay Round that foresaw the scrapping of import quotas at the start of 2005, it is hard to imagine it viewing the deal as a way to boost production in knitted products.…