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THE CREATION of a harmonised customs system within the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) by 2015 should be better exploited by its regional clothing and textile industry through better vertical integration, a conference was told this week.…

TECHNICAL textile experts have told just-style Indian manufacturers within this sector need a new Indian government scheme designed to promote such advanced technology.

India’s commerce minister Anand Sharma unveiled the details at Technotex 2013, an international conference organised by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in New Delhi late last week.…

Colombia’s clothing export sector is eyeing Europe as a key market for diversifying its sales away from a reliance on the United States and neighbouring South American countries. Senior industry officials speaking at the major Latin America textile and apparel trade fair, Colombiatex, staged last week in Medellin, said they would pro-actively seek out European sales.…

DESPITE China’s slowing economy in 2012, Chinese consumers still spent handsomely on beauty products. In December alone, for example, spending on cosmetics and personal care products (such as personal soaps, shampoo and toothpastes) increased 16% and 16.6% respectively from the same time a year ago, compared with 8.7% for clothing and 3.6% for jewelry, according to the China Nation Commercial Information Center, a Beijing-based government organisation tracking national retail statistics.…

BY JONATHAN GILBERT, IN BUENOS AIRES

ARGENTINA’S beef producers have claimed their government’s new trade complaint against the United States over allegedly illegal American beef import controls is a spurious political smokescreen.

Ángel Girardi, president of the Argentine Association of Beef Producers, told globalmeatnews.com…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A FEDERAL American grand jury has indicted two Pakistanis on charges alleging they operated Internet sites that illegally shipped pharmaceuticals from Britain and Pakistan to customers worldwide, including the USA. The charges allege that since 2005 Sheikh Waseem Ul Haq, 39, and Tahir Saeed, 50, illegally shipped USD2 million of pharmaceuticals, selling nearly USD780,000 in the USA.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

ELCORE GmbH, a German maker of fuel cell micro-CHP (FC mCHP) units currently has only a few being put through their paces in homes in its domestic market. It has high hopes, though, of selling plenty on a fully commercial basis from late next year before spreading its wings into other European markets.…

BY POORNA RODRIGO, IN LONDON

WITH as many as 400,000 people with dementia still going undiagnosed in the UK according to the Alzheimer’s Society, nurses can play a crucial role in spotting early signs of the disease.

But there are real challenges here – especially when nurses receive "very little" dementia awareness education, and "sometimes only one educational session during their three years of training," said Ian Weatherhead, lead nurse of Admiral Nursing DIRECT, the national helpline of Dementia UK.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS; AND HEATHER TAN, IN SINGAPORE

THE WEALTHY southeast Asian market of Singapore should welcome imports of European manufactured cars based on European Union (EU) technical and safety standards and approvals under a new trade deal finalised this week.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON, AND JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO

EUROPE’S automakers have reacted with ill-disguised dismay to the European Union’s (EU) decision (announced last Thursday) to begin negotiations with Japan for a free trade agreement (FTA). The motor industry’s trade association ACEA said "independent studies have shown that this deal is a one-way street as far as the automobile industry is concerned."…