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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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to grant Argentina some leeway over its dismantling of controls on the export of its bovine hides and the import of finished leather, as required by a World Trade Organisation disputes panel ruling, which went against Buenos Aires.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN OVERHAUL of the judicial system in Serbia is being funded by the European Union, which is spending Euro 3 million on improving caseload management, in a bid to “offer every citizen a trustworthy, accessible and efficient justice apparatus.”…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA’S National Automobile Dealers Association is applauding a ruling by the country’s Internal Revenue Service that will allow car and truck dealers to use replacement cost to evaluate their year-end parts inventory.

"This is a huge victory for dealers," said Bill Newman, NADA’s chief operating officer of Public and Legal Affairs, who said his organisation had spent eight years lobbying the IRS for the time and money-saving change.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), has reissued a cautionary warning to users of 15-seat vans, popular for groups, such as sports teams, going on outings, following the release of new in-house research about rollovers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation meeting has issued detailed recommendations on how to improve industrial relations in the oil and gas production and refining industries. The paper concludes that industrial relations in the sector will become more complex as it juggles environmental and social concerns with cost reduction.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DRAFT recommendations on improving the treatment of oil spills have been agreed by the International Maritime Organisation, during the UN agency’s third research and development Forum on High Density Oil Spill Response.

Experts present discussed the particular problems posed by this kind of pollution, including its high viscosity and tendency to sink.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to grant Argentina some leeway over its dismantling of controls on the export of its bovine hides and the import of finished leather, as required by a World Trade Organisation disputes panel ruling, which went against Buenos Aires.…

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

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.…