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BY KEITH NUTHALL

VIETNAM will be hoping that the approval this week of its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will improve the access to overseas markets enjoyed by its clothing and textile exporters. Membership means that Vietnam and its trading partners have promised to keep their mutual clothing and textile trades unimpeded by restrictive quotas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) retailers may next week regain unlimited sources of cheap Chinese and Vietnamese leather shoes, with a deadline looming for EU ministers to agree permanent (definitive) anti-dumping duties. Northern European member states have so far blocked duties sufficiently tough to satisfy southern European countries seeking to protect their shoe manufacturers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A PROTOTYPE book-on-demand machine that prints, cuts and binds up to 20 books in an hour has been launched at the World Bank Bookstore in Washington. The Espresso Book Machine uses digital files to "make" books listed on a catalogue.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOOD producers and distributors in Vietnam are to receive assistance in raising their standards because of Euro 38 million lent by the European Investment Bank (EIB) to Germany’s Metro Cash and Carry Vietnam Limited. This money will finance the construction of wholesale stores in five main Vietnamese cities: Can Tho, Ho-Chi-Minh-City, Hanoi, Haiphong and Da Nang.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Commission trade officials in Brussels have confirmed that the European Union (EU) may exempt sports trainers from possible anti-dumping duties against Vietnam footwear exports, now under investigation. The official told just-style.com: "We’re considering an exemption in this case; that’s a scenario we have put to member states, (European) producers and other interested parties."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend German retail giant Metro Euro 40 million to build five junior wholesale cash and carry stores in Vietnam. They would cover between 6,000 and 9,000 square metres in sales area and would mirror the small cash and carry format that has proved particularly successful for Metro in eastern and southern Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Commission trade officials in Brussels have confirmed that the European Union (EU) may exempt sports trainers from possible anti-dumping duties against Vietnam footwear exports, now under investigation. The official told just-style.com: "We’re considering an exemption in this case; that’s a scenario we have put to member states, (European) producers and other interested parties."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FORMAL decision has been taken by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to abolish all remaining textile and clothing import quotas for World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries from January 1. It means 210 quotas affecting exporters from Argentina, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand will go.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the widening of import quotas for Vietnamese textile exports to the European Union (EU), to take account of the accession of 10 southern and eastern European countries to the EU in May. These quotas would remain until they are abolished in the New Year, under the World Trade Organisation’s agreement on textiles and clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REPORTS of fresh bird flu outbreaks are still being reported to the Office International des Épizooties (OIE) by the Indonesian and Vietnamese governments. The most recent cases in Indonesia involved 6,610 chickens being killed in Yogyakarta and Lampung provinces; 200 died in Dông Tháp, Vietnam.…