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BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has played tit-for-tat in unusually public diplomatic spat over temporary’ safeguard duties that were imposed by Beijing last May on US exports of nine steel products. The United States had published a pointed set of questions about whether the duties had actually lapsed as planned by November and over exemptions from such tariffs for South Korea and Slovakia on the apparently dubious grounds that they were “developing countries”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States government has thrown doubt on whether the China has scrapped ‘temporary’ safeguard duties that were imposed by Beijing last May on nine steel products imported from the US, tariffs that were supposed to lapse by November 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DETAILED and global draft code of practice on reducing violence and stress suffered by service industry employees has been released by the International Labour Organisation, which says the problems are a “threat to productivity and decent work”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations cultural and scientific agency UNESCO has welcomed a pledge by the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) not to exploit, explore or mine in official World Heritage sites. The council represents 15 of the world’s largest metals and mining companies, namely Alcoa, Anglo American, AngloGold, BHP Billiton, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Mitsubishi Materials, Newmont, Nippon Mining & Metals, Noranda, Pasminco, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto, Sumitomo Metal Mining, Umicore and WMC Resources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has started to get tough with the United States over the ongoing controversy regarding the use by Washington of air passenger data handed over by European Union airlines. Internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein said in a speech to the European Parliament justice and home affairs committee in Brussels: “We cannot let this process go on indefinitely.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations fact-finding mission sent to investigate the growth in organised crime in Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein has concluded that cigarette smuggling is a key problem facing the occupation authorities. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that the illicit trafficking of cigarettes had grown, with the trade being underpinned by past custom, especially on the Iran-Iraq border.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has banned smoking in any UN premises within its New York headquarters. The ban applies to all buildings and grounds, except an outdoor area on the public plaza at the visitors’ entrance. Annan said he wanted to combat passive smoking.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ONCE again significant recovery of coal mining in Kosovo has been frustrated by unforeseen natural disasters – in this case the collapse last November of the coal face in the Bardh coal mine after very heavy rain, causing serious damage to equipment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Security Council has urged its members to propose candidates to the job of diamond-mining police advisor to the Sierra Leone government, as part of the UN’s continued military mission to the war weary west African country.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has welcomed what it says is the imminent ratification of the United Nations Agreement on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks by the European Union, which should help Ottawa conserve its hard-pressed fishing reserves.…