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14/07/10 New
European Commission Press Release- Enabling our future: experts to advise Commission on upcoming technologies
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03/07/10 New
European Semiconductor sales in May 2010
18/06/10 New
Europe's Microchip Industry looks ahead again - and calls on EU decision-makers to seize the economic and political momentum
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10/06/10
New WSC Joint Statement
03/02/10 New
Semiconductors confirmed as 2nd most R&D intensive industry in Europe
19/05/10 New
SICAS:FAB CAPACITY AND UTILISATION FOR THE 1st QUARTER OF 2010
30/09/09
'Industry is ready to play its role' : Industry welcomes today's
EU Communication on key enabling technologies
24/09/09
Global Customs Experts Meet to Curb Semiconductor Counterfeiting
15/09/09
ESIA Newsletter -Semiconductor Europe- September 2009
22-26/06/09
ESIA AT THE GREEN WEEK 2009
COMMISSIONER DIMAS VISITS ESIA STAND
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Semiconductors: Enabling energy efficiency
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08/04/09
ENABLING A MORE SUSTAINABLE AND ENERGY EFFICIENT EUROPE
05/02/09
ENABLING SUSTAINABLE LIVING IN 21ST CENTURY EUROPE
10/11/08 -
LAUNCH OF ESIA'S 2008 COMPETITIVENESS REPORT
Customs Classifications working group
Duty rates, scope and application of international agreements, such as the ITA – the Information Technology Agreement, trade remedies, statistics, they all need a common understanding on how a good is identified worldwide, ensuring that what are "apples" in one country are not "oranges" in another: this tool is given by international customs classifications.
As international trade becomes more complex, international customs classifications are becoming the main multi purpose tool to help governments and industry for fiscal and regulatory compliance.
Semiconductor products are evolving everyday with technology, and customs classifications are not revised as often to catch the new products in the right category, or to catch them at all.
Classification revisions ensure that the classifications are kept up to date in the light of changes in technology or in patterns of international trade. ESIA FTG is working pro-actively to ensure that classification revisions capture correctly the new products on the market, or give input where an interpretation of the related heading is required.
Working Group Chairman:
Trade Manager: Giovanni Corder
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