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BY MARK ROWE

WHEN the European Union (EU) set up the world’s first carbon trading market in 2001, the Emissions Trading System (ETS), advocates heralded a new dawn: carbon pollution could be brought under control in a way that benefited the environment while not damaging industrial interests.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

THE UNITED States Trade Representative (USTR) has joined forces with the European Union (EU) to press Indonesia to simplify its licensing for meat and livestock imports. The US and Canada, with the support of the EU, Brazil, New Zealand, Japan and Switzerland, have complained to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) import licensing committee, claiming that Indonesia’s tough licensing for meat and livestock imports could seriously damage trade.…

BY JONATHAN DYSON, IN CANCÚN

SIGNS are emerging that Mexico’s textile and apparel industry is reclaiming a growing proportion of the US market as it benefits from an increasing focus on higher-value products and greater diversification. Mexico’s share of the US market, which accounts for around 55% of its textile exports and 95% of its apparel exports, dropped sharply following China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001 and its subsequent domination of the global textile and apparel market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PLASTICS companies in the European Union (EU) storing potentially dangerous chemicals on their premises will have to by 2015 abide by tougher management standards preventing industrial accidents. This is because the European Parliament, the European Commission and the EU Council of Ministers have struck an agreement on the contents of a new law – the Seveso III directive – that will include new safety rules for chemical-using businesses.…

BY MARK GODFREY, IN BEIJING

BIG hair product brands are hitching wagons to hair-care salons sprouting up around the Chinese capital Beijing. With local incomes rising, local salon chains such as Shenmei and YesFashion are quickly expanding. Opened in 2011 as a redecoration of a former independent salon, the Shenmei is 400 metres from (in what was formerly a supermarket) a YesFashion outlet on shopping street Tuajiehu Lu.…

BY WANG FANGQING

JAPAN’S leading brewer Suntory will invest Japanese Yen JPY6 billion (USD75.5 million) in its Japanese plants. The aim is to increase overall Japan-based beer annual production capacity by 16% to 80 million cases (of 20 bottles). Its key focus is to manufacture more of its light beer Kin-Mugi and a new version of its Premium Malt’s pilsner (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT).…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) auto industry is awaiting the announcement by the EU executive, the European Commission, of a moratorium on new technical regulations, which could come in June. If it happens, it will be announced by EU industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani, who is responsible for technical rules on vehicles across the EU, and is worried that a European auto sector, already having a tough time, is being hamstrung by a conveyor belt of new rules.…

BY KARRYN MILLER, MJ DESCHAMPS, LEAH GERMAIN AND KEITH NUTHALL

THE BYELECTION victories in Myanmar/Burma by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her political allies have loosened the tough trade sanctions that have thus far hampered efforts to develop the country as a new sourcing hub for knitwear and other clothing products.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD AND JONATHAN DYSON, IN LIMA

SOME of world’s most coveted fibres, Vicuña, Guanaco, Alpaca and Llama, all hail from rugged Andean region in South America. Vicuña fibre, known locally and in the trade as the "gold of the Andes" and "the fabric of the gods" is a key part of the global high-end luxury market for rare and superfine fibres.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO

At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, Japan came to a standstill for a minute of silence to remember the Great East Japan Earthquake and its tsunami.

And while the cosmetics and personal care sector might not have been in a position to provide much assistance in the physical reconstruction of communities that were impacted, it has been innovative in its efforts to assist those in need.…