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India implements "bar code" requirement for consumer products

The Indian "Directorate General of Foreign Trade" (DGFT) has announced that "bar coding" on consumer product exports will be compulsory as of December 1, 2000. Also consignments in wholesale packaging must carry such a bar code. All finished and packaged products meant for retail sale must bear the code to make exporters use "value added products" rather than low price products. The DGFT considers the bar code the distinguishing mark. This requirement applies to specific industries, including ready-made garments, engineering products, food, pharmaceuticals, leather goods, sporting goods, plastic goods, and handicrafts. Citation: India Trade Notes, provided by Mr. Arun Goyal, Academy of Business Studies, 4/4866 Sheeltara House, Ansari Road, New Delhi 110 002, India, Phone: (91)(11) 328-1314, 326-3470, 326-3570, FAX: (91)(11) 325-2880, E- mail: arung@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in.

Human Rights group sues high Chinese official over human rights abuses

On August 28, 2000, five veterans of the Tiananmen Square military crackdown in Beijing filed an action in the Manhattan federal court under the Alien Tort Claims Act of 1789 (ATCA) and the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1992. Drawn up with the aid of nonprofit human rights groups, the suit seeks damages from Li Peng, the chairmen of China's National People's Congress, who was prime minister at the time of the June 4, 1989 incident. The complaint charges that Mr. Li was responsible for "crimes against humanity, including summary execution, arbitrary detention, torture and other torts." A process server handed the complaint and summons to a State Department employee who was protecting Mr. Li at the Waldorf Towers. The district court had already ruled that a federal employee guarding Mr. Li was able to accept the papers because of the difficulty of reaching Mr. Li in any other way. Plaintiffs contend that Mr. Li is not entitled to diplomatic immunity since he is not credentialed as a Chinese envoy to...

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