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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DUMPING duties imposed since 1997 on certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel from Russia and Romania will probably be suspended because of concerns they were based on corrupted data. The European Commission has said their founding calculations could have been influenced by two cartels, (an European Union (EU)-Japan and a purely European network), that were formally unmasked last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has suspended anti-dumping duties imposed since 1997 on certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel from Russia and Romania because of concerns they were based on corrupted data.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN is one of the safest countries in the world as regards fatal road accidents involving children along with Sweden, Japan and Italy, a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has claimed. It says that more children are killed on the road than in any other type of accident, with South Korea, New Zealand, Portugal and the United States having the highest child road-fatality rates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MUTUAL recognition agreement on good pharmaceutical manufacturing practice struck between Japan and the European Union (EU) will come into force on May 29, allowing certain medicines to be traded then sold without additional testing or certification. These include standard, homeopathic and vitamin treatments as listed in the agreement’s annexe, and the scope will be reviewed in the future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) should pump public money into nanotechnology research to enable Europe to regain its former leading position in this growing and increasingly lucrative sector, the European Commission has said. A policy paper (communication) ‘Towards a European Strategy for Nanotechnology’, says the it should use its cross-border coordinating role to create EU ‘poles of excellence’ in the sector, combining researchers with industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPETITIVENESS report by the European Commission has claimed that environmental improvements made European Union (EU) industries in 2002 has not blunted their efficiency. The paper says that despite large reductions in greenhouse, acidifying, ozone-depleting, and ozone-precursor gases, EU manufacturing industry made strides in boosting productivity, compared with rivals in Japan and the USA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA will this year begin a trial of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) technology at three airports in the west of the country, it has told an Asia-Pacific region ADS-B meeting staged by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S largest producer of chrysotile asbestos fibres, LAB Chrysotile, has announced it will indefinitely shut one of its two mines near Thetford Mines, Quebec, this November. The company has blamed the closure of its Black Lake mine, which will result in 450 job losses, on a high Canadian dollar in comparison to the US dollar and tough international competition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FOURTH mining equipment leasing package for Russia has been signed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. This latest agreement will help Japan’s Sumitomo group expand its supplies in Siberia and the Russian far east, through a US$45 million leasing framework, with the bank bearing one third of the risk.…