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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected five appeals by seamless steel tubes producers, such as oil country tubular goods, against fines imposed by the European Commission for participating in a cartel called the Europe-Japan Club. The ECJ rejected appeals by Salzgitter Mannesmann, of Germany, Dalmine, of Italy; plus Japan’s Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd and the Nippon Steel Corp.…

BY MARK ROWE
AN EXHIBITION centre in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou will next month (March) be the venue for Asia’s largest personal care trade conference. Manufacturers, formulators, scientists and suppliers will converge to promote new ranges to what is now recognised as being the world’s most burgeoning market: China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has approved a third revision of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Pharma-GATT Agreement, removing import duties on 1,290 more pharmaceuticals and medicine ingredients traded between major manufacturing countries.

This agreement was originally framed in 1994, and has been updated twice to account for technical progress and expand its scope.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a website called ERAWATCH (named after the European Research Area – ERA), posted with information on research systems and policies within all European Union (EU) member states and other major countries, such as the US, Japan and China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BALTIC States are the European Union’s (EU) boom-region for research spending increases, according to the latest R&D figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat, which show Britain’s performance as relatively static. Annual average growth rates in real terms research spending from 2001 to 2005 ranged from +18% in Latvia, +17% in Estonia, and +11% in Lithuania, (+15% in Cyprus).…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
JUST as they are inventive in the world of business, the Japanese can be similarly clever when it comes to getting around inconvenient regulations on commerce, reports Julian Ryall, in Tokyo.

THEY may be better behaved than many of their counterparts in the rest of Asia, but many Japanese corporations have a very different attitude to breaking the rules than they did before the country’s recent “lost decade” of economic stagnation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA, India and Japan have joined the 10 Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) countries, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea in signing the Cebu Declaration on East Asian Energy Security, on promoting energy sustainability. Although the pact includes no binding targets on emissions reduction, it strongly urges biofuel and other alternative energy sources development.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BALTIC States are the European Union’s (EU) boom-region for research spending increases, according to the latest R&D figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat, which show Britain’s performance as relatively static. Annual average growth rates in real terms research spending from 2001 to 2005 ranged from +18% in Latvia, +17% in Estonia, and +11% in Lithuania, (+15% in Cyprus).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend around Euro 4.7 million in helping German, Greek, Italian and Polish food producers and processors export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend around Euro 4 million helping Cypriot, Greek and Portuguese wine producers export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets. As usual in these cases, Brussels is funding 50% of planned marketing programmes, matching financing from national governments or private sources.…