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The Russian government is considering restoring the fire-damaged library of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION), a major centre for research in social studies and humanities.

The Russian Federal Agency of Scientific Organisations (FASO), a federal executive body, said the January 31 fire damaged about 5.42 million books, of which about 2.32 million were destroyed.…

THE EUROPEAN Committee of Sugar Manufacturers (CEFS) has called on the European Union (EU) and US negotiators for a Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) to exclude sugar and high sugar products from this planned trade agreement.

“The US market is a mature and saturated market, not attractive for the EU,” Marie-Christine Ribera, CEFS director general, told TTIP negotiators during an event dedicated to interest groups affected by the agreement, held in Brussels on February 4.…

With 685 million wet pounds of coatings sold for USD730 million in 2013, the Vietnam market consumed only a tiny fraction of Asia-Pacific region’s total of 36 billion wet pounds sold for USD50 billion that year, according to Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, Inc, a New Jersey, USA-based consulting firm for the polymer and chemical industries.…

Low cotton prices and land scarcity may impede a long term cotton production expansion plan launched by the Vietnamese government in 2010, an industry expert has told WTiN.com.

Vietnam is a global powerhouse in textile, garment and apparel manufacturing, but it relies heavily on cotton imports, with only 1% of the cotton used in the country produced domestically, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).…

The recent moves towards loosening trade and diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba has provided a source of cautious optimism within the American auto industry.
President Barack Obama has been loosening the 54-year trade restrictions after announcing a policy u-turn on December 17 last year, but only Congress, controlled by Republicans, can actually lift the economic embargo entirely.…

REPRESENTATIVES of the European and American automobile industries hope that the negotiations for a large-scale trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) will pick up pace after the publication of a new round of official documents by the European Commission.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission vice-president for the Energy Union, Maroš Šefčovič, said that unity between all European Union (EU) member states was crucial in dealing with the energy challenges created by the current conflict with Russia.

“What is the most important in this respect is that the EU remains united and that all member states have the same common position, support the same approach and implement the sanctions in the same way,” he told members of the European Parliament during an event organised by the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe (ALDE), a European political party, in Brussels.…

WHILE the global nonwovens industry maybe booming through investments, acquisition of new sites, expansion of capacity, more customers and exhibitions all over, the same optimism cannot be applied to emerging market former starlet Brazil. Despite its huge market with 200 million inhabitants, the nonwovens sector of South America’s economic powerhouse is looking for another deep loss of steam in 2015.…

Japan’s pork industry remains resolutely opposed to its national government watering down tariffs in discussions with the United States on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade deal, warning that revising the existing system will “destroy” the domestic industry.

A spokesman for the Japan Pork Producers’ Association confirmed that the industry will continue to lobby the government to retain the protective tariffs that domestically raised pork enjoys at present.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission stood by its position on Friday (January 30) that the European Union (EU) member states were united regarding talks with Russia about the possible lifting of the latter’s ban on EU food products such as pork meat.

A Russian official said last week that his country was ready to resume inspections with the goal of lifting the ban on pork meat from France, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.…