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WTO SERVICES ROUND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation are to examine in detail proposals made by the EU, USA, Venezuela and Canada for the dismantling of national bureaucratic barriers that can prevent oil and gas companies from working effectively around the world.…
TRAINING DIRECTIVE
KEITH NUTHALL
GIVEN the difficulty that the British haulage industry has in recruiting new drivers, the last thing that it needs – some might say – would be to make it harder for would-be haulers to get behind the steering wheel and drive.…
USA RULES OF ORIGIN
KEITH NUTHALL
ITALIAN textile houses have welcomed US Congress’ adoption of reforms to America’s rules of origin for textile products, which they claimed discriminated against European Union exports and broke World Trade Organisation rules.
When implementing the Uruguay Round GATT agreement, the United States had passed a law that insisted that cotton, silk and man-made fibres fabrics entering the EU at loom state to be dyed and printed, no longer qualified as EU products when they were exported.…
smokecloak
BY ALAN OSBORN
(maximum marks for this one, I think. Only drawback – it’s only as good as the alarm system it comes with.)
Price (installed):
the 2000 model (155 cubic metres) – pounds 1,350
the 4000 model (250 cubic metres) – pounds 1,800
the 8000 model (400 cubic metres) – pounds 2,200
Contact:
Smokecloak
10 Cochran Close, Crownhill
Milton Keynes, Bucks.…
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Alan Osborne
SMALLER companies are still not getting the message about the link between ill health and conditions in the workplace. Papers presented to the recent Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) conference at the Birmingham NEC from May 21 to 24 showed that national campaigns are missing the mark.…
ADVERTISING BAN 2
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has returned to the political fray over tobacco advertising. Bloodied from its experience at the European Court of Justice, yet apparently unbowed, it has proposed a fresh directive which seeks to ban companies from buying publicity in the print media, radio and the Internet.…
JAPAN ETC
Keith Nuthall
THE GOVERNMENTS of Japan and Cyprus have informed the World Trade Organisation of how they intend to implement its third stage of commitments made under the WTO’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…
INDIA LEATHER WRAP
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
DEMAND for ostrich leather, particularly from south Asia, has been one the result of the recent spread of foot-and-mouth disease across the globe, notably to Britain, Argentina, Uruguay, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The problems have created a scarcity in the market for bovine leather and there have been industry reports from India saying that there has been a resulting good demand for printed leathers, especially ostrich leather print, reflecting positive opinions that it is distinctive and elegant.…
COUNTERFEITING
BY ALAN OSBORN
MAYBE not all of us would know the difference if we got served
bootleg vodka instead of Smirnoff in a pub, but make no mistake – this is happening on a wide scale and it amounts to a rip-off that is cheating drinkers of millions of dollars a year.…
EU KYOTO REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MEMBER States of the European Union reduced their emissions of the six key greenhouse gases by four per cent between 1990 and 1999, three per cent of which was achieved in 1998-9, according to a report from the European Environment Agency.…