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- Subject: AGORA-SCMPOST RFE/RL Daily Report 19-20 NOV, 1992 (excerpts)
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 07:42:30 -0600
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- EC IMPOSES DUTIES ON EAST EUROPEAN STEEL. A lobbying drive by
- hard-pressed West European steel makers ended up by raising import
- duties on Hungarian, Polish, Czechoslovak and Croatian steel. The
- new duties amount to between 10% and 30%, the Financial Times
- reported on 18 November. Steel imports by these countries jumped
- by 70% since March of last year, when quotas were dropped.
- According to an EC steel industry official, imports from Eastern
- Europe hare in 1992, up from 7.8% in 1988,
- and this constitutes dumping, undercutting Western prices by 25%.
- (Karoly Okolicsanyi, RFE/RL Inc.)
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- NEW POLITICAL PARTY IN HUNGARublic Party is headed by Janos Palotas,
- who g exposure and fame during the October 1990 taxi
- strike. Palotas, a pivate businessman and independent
- parliamentary deputy, is a highly-popular spokesman for Hungarion of long-term credits for
- university studentsreturning 80% of personal income tax to local
- governments, initiation of largecture investments by the
- state, and support for holding of the World Exhibition in Hungary
- in 1, the
- organizers said, and will concentrate on practical matters.
- (Karoly Okolicsanyi, RFE/RL Inc.)
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