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CHINA: Raises cotton import tax but unclear on quotas
2013-12-20 15:51:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Chinese government plans to introduce adjustments from 1 January 2014 to the way it calculates tax applied to imported cotton over-and-above its mandatory WTO-approved import quota of 894,000 tonnes.
Siemens Warming to Female Quotas Shows Germany's Gender Dilemma
2013-12-04 08:47:25| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Five years after pledging to promote more women to leadership roles without using legal quotas, Siemens AG is fighting a losing battle.
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Obama administration announces lower quotas for ethanol in gasoline
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama on Friday backed away from the notion of corn ethanol representing a cure for climate change, as he proposed to cut the amount of ethanol that is blended into the US gasoline supply. The Environmental Protection Agency said it would for the first time seek to lower quotas for ethanol that have diverted close to 40% of America's corn crop from the global food chain and into the country's gas tanks. The EPA said it would seek to reduce the quotas under the Renewable Fuel Standard, from...
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Commission Announces 2014 Meat, Poultry, Whey Quotas
2013-11-08 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
KAZAKHSTAN - On 30 October 2013, the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) published Decision 242, "On the List of Goods, which are Subject to Tariff-Rate Quotas in 2014, and the Volume of Tariff-Rate Quotas for Imports of these Goods into the Member States of the Customs Union and Single Economic Space."
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Suit: Store guards had quotas, codes for minorities
2013-10-31 23:40:38| Apparel - Topix.net
A lawsuit against Macy's indicates a security guard for the flagship store in New York's Herald Square said she and colleagues had a weekly arrest quota and identified minority shoppers by codes, according to a New York City lawyer.