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Keith Nuthall
AS the European Union (EU) prepares to abolish its remaining restrictive import quotas for textile and clothing products, the latest European Commission statistics confirm that China is best placed to exploit this liberalisation. For 2003, China exported more textile products to the expanded EU, with 10.7% of imports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ATTACK has been made on the United States, European Union (EU), and other textile importing jurisdictions for waiting until the last minute to abolish most restrictive quotas under the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Textile and Clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has boasted that 100 countries have now signed its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, although only nine countries have yet to ratify the treaty. Of these, the world’s major developed economies are conspicuously absent, the line up including Fiji, India, Malta, Mongolia, New Zealand, Norway, Palau, Seychelles and Sri Lanka.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
GROWING Sri Lanka soap manufacturer Hemas Holdings wants to increase exports and acquire more brands to exploit new additional manufacturing capacity, notably its new SLRupees 106 million soap plant at Welisara. The company currently only makes its own brand Baby Cheramy, commanding 35 per cent of the island’s baby soap market.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE CEYLON Tobacco Company Ltd (CTC) reaped a trading profit of SLRupees 1,394 million (US$14 million) in its last financial year (ending December 31, 2003), 10 per cent up on the previous year. Total 2003 revenue was SLRupees 30.1 billion (US$300 million), from which CTC paid out SLRupees 25 billion (US$250 million) in excise and sales taxes.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
SRI Lanka’s consumer affairs authority (CAA) has ruled that sugar in packs and containers and confectioneries such as cakes and sweets (also in packs or containers), sold in the south Asian country should display maximum retail prices, batch numbers and expiry dates on packaging.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A row has erupted in Sri Lanka after students in schools in the capital, Colombo, have been given free bookmarks in the shape of a beer bottle and carrying ribbons in the colours of a leading beer. Several hundred of the bookmarks, designed to promote beer brand awareness among boys and young men, have been distributed at school gates and main junctions near schools and are reported to be freely circulating among students.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
SRI Lanka’s consumer affairs authority (CAA) has ruled that soaps, toothpaste and baby shampoo, oil, talcum powers and lotions sold in the country should display maximum retail prices, batch numbers and expiry dates on packaging. Soap products covered include toilet, medical toilet, carbolic, shaving, soft, liquid, baby and laundry soaps.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE SRI Lankan government is wrongly promoting the consumption of poultry as an alternative to red meat in the diet of its citizens, according to a report from the Olcott Gunasekera of Dharmavijaya Centre for Promotion of Healthy Living in Sri Lanka.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE, in Columbo
THE UNITED States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) will provide technical assistance to Sri Lanka so it can comply with the rules of the US Container Security Initiative. The agency has asked US company Aerospace

Services International Inc.…