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BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRINTING equipment and supplies imported from the United States are to be a focus of retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union following the erection of controversial ‘safeguard’ duties by Washington to protect its steel industry.

The European Commission has announced that it is asking EU ministers to approve a selected range of products, where the levying of duty will cause the most pain to US exporters, in a bid to try and force the Bush administration to lift its tariffs.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CANADIAN casual clothing retailer Au Coton Inc has announced that it is insolvent and will be restructured under bankruptcy legislation, owing creditors more than CAN$23 million.

It is not yet confirmed how many of the 140 stores across the country will be affected.…

BY PHILIP FINE

US textile manufacturers are anxious to tell US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill how his department’s high dollar policy has contributed to devastating job losses for the country’s textile and apparel workers.

American Textile Manufacturers Institute spokesman, Cass Johnson, says his organisation would be attending O’Neill’s senate banking hearings on May 1st and will also lobby federal officials on how propping up US currency has translated into his sector losing 13 per cent of its workforce in one year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SHOE and fashion accessory imports from the United States are to be a focus of retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union because of the erection of controversial ‘safeguard’ duties by Washington to protect the American steel industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LAST week a political deal was struck in Brussels on the shape of European cookie legislation. The result, in footballing terms: Lawyers 5 – IT industry 2.

On the plus side, the anti-cookie proposals of Council of Ministers, (which represents Europe’s Member States and shares the right of veto over this law with the European Parliament), have been softened, which should give some breathing room to the EU’s hard pressed Internet industry.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CANADA’S federal government will tighten regulations on Sport Utility Vehicles by changing their classification from trucks to cars to force manufacturers to abide by their tighter emissions laws, reducing pollution from SUV’s.

The move is part of an overhaul of Canadian maximum emission levels for oxides of nitrogen, which will see the ceilings for cars reduced from 0.3 grams per mile to between 0.07 grams per mile.…

Keith Nuthall
TEXTILE imports from the United States will carry retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union because of the erection of controversial ‘safeguard’ duties by Washington to protect the American steel industry.

The European Commission is asking EU ministers to approve duties on a selected range of products.…

Keith Nuthall
AUTOMOBILE industry products and components from the United States will be a focus of retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union because of Washington’s controversial ‘safeguard’ duties protecting the American steel industry.

The European Commission has asked EU ministers to approve a selected range of products, where the levying of duty will cause pain to US exporters.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE LOCATION of Afghanistan’s national museum in a southern Kabul suburb must have been idyllic when it opened in 1931, set against a pastoral backdrop of farmland and mountains. The museum was once one of the richest cultural repositories in the world, home to a collection of the most elegant antiquities from the Ashokan, Greek, Buddhist, Zoroastrian and Muslim periods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CASPIAN Sea countries Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Russia and Iran have launched a coordinated programme for surveying and managing sturgeon stocks, paving the way for resuming the US$100 million caviar industry, the United Nations Environment Programme has announced. The trade had been halted by UN conservation agency CITES.…