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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has moved to prevent illicit diversions of cut-priced Chinese iron and steel fasteners via Malaysia to evade EU anti-dumping duties. It has extended an 85% tariff to most of these products exported from Malaysia, whether they are made there or not.…

BY MARK GODFREY

SOFT loans from a cash-rich bevvy of state banks; direct payments to help build manufacturing bases; and tax breaks for firms using local components – these are all forms of state support currently helping China’s wind turbine and solar panel makers capture global market share.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE UNITED States federal government has criticised the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme’s extension to the aviation sector (Wednesday July 27) at a congressional hearing in Washington DC. House of Representatives transportation and infrastructure committee chairman John L Mica called the plans "a violation of international law".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, DAVE YIN and WANG FANGQING

A GOOD deal of excitement has been created by the announcement this week in the UK academic journal Nature Geoscience that significant deposits of rare earths have been found in the Pacific Ocean floor.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

CANADA’S last major, fully-operational asbestos mine is in danger of being shut down "indefinitely" come November, due to unresolved labour issues.

LAB Chrysotile in Thetford Mines, Québec is the last year-round asbestos operation in the country, and is currently responsible for the bulk of Canada’s CAD90 million (USD 95 million) chrysotile asbestos sector.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

IN a drive to combat the illegal exploitation of conflict minerals and create greater transparency of money flows between mining companies and governments, the European Commission is to table a new European Union (EU) law this autumn. It will ask large mining companies to reveal detail about their mining activities and associated financial transactions to shareholders.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE UNITED States Trade Representative has proposed a ‘yarn forward’ rule within negotiations for Washington to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, to protect the US textile industry from Vietnam’s state-subsidised textile enterprises. America and Vietnam want to join the TPP, currently including Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore.…

BY MARK GODFREY

THE NEW high speed train line linking Beijing with Shanghai has caught the public imagination this year, while the Chinese capital is still proceeding with plans for a second airport. Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) ranked second worldwide in passenger through-put in 2010, with 73 million users moving through the airport.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE MIDDLE East’s confectionery market (including the Gulf, the Levant, Egypt (but not elsewhere in north Africa), Iraq Iran, Turkey and Israel) was valued at US dollar USD113 billion in 2009, while annual chocolate sales exceeded USD4.2 billion, according to USA-based TNS Media Intelligence.…

BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE and KEITH NUTHALL

IT is more than 18 months since the earthquake that ravaged Haiti seriously damaged Toussaint L’Ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, notably its air traffic control tower, rendering it unusable. The airport suffered structural damage to its terminal building walls and there were some major electrical faults.…