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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.…
WORLD BANK & CORRUPTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL aid programmes are often regarded as a soft touch by criminals, who try to plunder their fat budgets, thinking that they are controlled by well-meaning innocents. Not so the World Bank; it has been investigating fraud in its development projects for years and it is getting tougher.…
SULPHUR FREE
Keith Nuthall
BY start of the next decade, all petrol engine automobiles driving in the European Union will have to run on sulphur-free fuel, if EU ministers back fresh proposals from the European Commission.
It wants sulphur to be banned from petrol in the EU by 2011, and has proposed that sulphur-free petrol and diesel should be made available in every Member States from January 1, 2005.…
LANDING FEES
Keith Nuthall
DISCRIMINATORY landing fees in European Union airports, which have favoured local carriers over those from other EU Member States, have been abolished across the continent, according to the European Commission. This follows six years of competition inquiries staged by its officials into the problem.…
INTERLINING
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Shippers Council has welcomed a decision by the European Commission to issue a statement of objections to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) over its cargo tariff consultations. The Commission says that the IATA consultations restrict competition “and are no longer indispensable to provide customers with efficient interlining services within the EEA.”…
EU FOOD AUTHORITY LATEST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has attempted to speed up preparations to launch the European Food Authority, by setting up an interim scientific advisory forum that will provide expert advice on food policy, ahead of the establishment of a permanent committee.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
BY ALAN OSBORN
PROPOSED European legislation for shipping using European Union ports or sailing in waters under the jurisdiction of EU Member States has been toughened up by the European Parliament, though the changes still have to be accepted by national government ministers.…
TOBACCO DIRECTIVE DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CIGARETTE packets sold in the European Union could be graced with gory medical images designed to shock smokers into quitting, as a result of a compromise deal struck between the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament over the final form of the new European tobacco directive.…
METAL FOIL DUTY
BY ALAN OSBORN
DEFINITIVE anti-dumping duties have been imposed by the European Union on aluminium foil exported by China and Russia. The EU Council of Ministers said that the duties would apply on imports of aluminium foil of a thickness of not less than 0.009 mm and not more than 0.018 mm, not backed, not further worked than rolled and in reels of a width not exceeding 650 mm.…
URANIUM DUTIES
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union has voiced “disappointment and concern” at a decision by the US Department of Commerce to impose provisional countervailing duties on imports of low enriched uranium from the EU.
European Commission officials said that the case concerned uranium that had been processed for use in electricity generation.…