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BY CRISTINA MUNTEAN

THE SECURITY of energy supply, including oil and gas storage capacity, dominates the current energy agenda of the Czech Republic, which took over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union (EU) from January 1, 2009.

This is no surprise: on July 10, 2008, Russian oil pipeline operator Transnieft cut monthly contracted oil deliveries by almost half from 500,000 tonnes to 300,000 tonnes via the Druzhba pipeline.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States is claiming victory in a trade dispute with China, after Beijing announced it would scrap subsidies for products including automotive parts and vehicles. Washington had launched formal disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), where it argued these China-christened ‘famous brands’ handouts were export subsidies banned under WTO rules.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

BANGLADESH’S clothing and ready made garment sector is undergoing unprecedented expansion, registering an average growth of 20% year on year, and with plans to be one of the top three exporters globally by 2013.

In the first four months of Bangladesh’s fiscal year, from July to September 2008, the sector reported 45% growth in exports of woven and knitwear to US$3.35 billion, according to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exports Association (BGMEA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CHINESE government has run out of legal options to fight the United States, the European Union (EU) and Canada over maintaining certain import duties it imposes on foreign auto-parts. The tariffs in question are levied when China-based assembly plants fail to use a designated minimum proportion of China-manufactured parts, and they have now been declared illegal once-and-for-all at the World Trade Organization (WTO).…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

BANGLADESH’S knitwear sector is undergoing unprecedented growth: averaging 24% per year over the past 12 years, and an astonishing 45% in the first three months of this fiscal year, with exports projected to reach US$10 billion by 2011.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved harmonising EU

chemical labelling rules with those of the United Nations Globally

Harmonised System. This will change some warning messages and pictograms,

with the aim of making them better understood.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, DOMINIQUE PATTON and LUCY JONES

The growth in outsourcing within the clothing and textile sector worldwide has highlighted a key issue, and that is the relative merits of running an integrated company that handles basic production and design, or relying on a string of specialist suppliers to deliver the goods, from fibre supplies, to textile manufacture, design, clothing assembly and retail.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved harmonising EU chemical labelling rules with those of the United Nations Globally Harmonised System. This will change some warning messages and pictograms on some products – such as aerosols, hair dyes and nail varnish – and some cosmetics ingredients, to make potential health hazards better understood.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

UNITED Nations experts have said the global food price crisis continues, despite the global recession and linked oil price falls. Economists from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) told a World Trade Organisation agriculture committee meeting its global food price index is still 51% higher than in September 2006, albeit at its lowest for nine months.…

BY ERIC LYMAN

SPEAKING to the Petroleum Review, the United Nations’ top climate change official has urged oil and gas companies to stay focused on sustainability despite the world economic turmoil, and predicted that the coming years will reward efficiency more than ever.…