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China bids to keep higher industrial tariffs at WTO
AFP, Geneva
China on Monday sought to persuade the World TYade Organisation to let it keep higher tariffs on industrial goods in any global trade deal, sparking fierce opposition from developed countries.
China, which joined the WTO in 2001, wants to be able to charge tariffs above the 23 percent level proposed for developing countries, citing its status as a "recently acceded member," trade officials attending talks here said.
Beijing is also seeking a 3-5 year grace period to implement tariff cuts rather than die 2 years currendy proposed.
Only Taiwan supports the Chinese move, officials said -- a rare show of unity between Beijing and Taipei.
The European Union rejected the bid outright, with ambassador Eckart Guth denouncing it as "absolutely unacceptable" while the EU's trade deficit with China "increases by the hour," the officials said.
Seven years after China joined the WTO, "there should be no talk about recendy acceeded members," Guth added.
His comments were echoed by US ambassador Peter Allgeier.
"This proposal is totally unacceptable and incompatible with what is expected from one of die biggest beneficiaries of the Doha Round," Allgeier said.
Google-Salesforce alliance aims at Microsoft software market
AFP, San Francisco
Google and Salesforce.com on Monday announced an expanded alliance to deliver online programs competing with packaged software at the heart of Microsoft's global empire.
Google "Apps" including email, calendar, and document writing will be included in software services offered by Salesforce, which essentially serves as a for-hire technology department businesses use via the Internet.
"Salesforce.com and Google have changed the game again, " said Yankee Group analyst Sheryl Kingstone. "This is revolutionizing the way people work."
Salesforce is a leader in "software as a service" (SaaS), which is referred to as "cloud computing" because programs are hosted online instead of installed and maintained on users’ machines.
Google vice president Dave Girouard said the alliance is unquestionably a shot across the bow of US software giant Microsoft, which has built its fortune selling packaged soft-ware such as Office and Outlook.
"We don't wake up in the morning at Google and say' How are we going to get Microsoft," but they are going to feel an impact," Girouard told AFP.
US slowdown curbs profits at India's Infosys
AFP, Bangalore, India
Indian software giant Infosys on Tuesday posted a lower-than-expected quarterly net profit, as the US economic slowdown hit the budgets of clients in its biggest market.
Net profit rose 9.2 percent to 12.49 billion rupees (315.04 million dollars) in the fourth quarter ended March, from 11.45 billion rupees. The profit missed analyst estimates of 12.6 billion rupees.
But shares of India's second-largest software exporter gained, bolstering peers too, as investors drew hope from its promise of higher sales and welcomed a special dividend to celebrate its first billion-dollar yearly profit
"We want to buy peace with investors," said V. Balakrishnan, chief financial officer of Infosys, whose shares rose more than six percentTuesday.
"We have 2.25 billion dollars in cash. What do we do with it? It’s a good time to celebrate.”
Hot money flows to China up sharply
AFP, Beijing
Hot money flowing into China surged in the first quarter to 80 billion dollars on expectations the yuan will rise further and Chinese interest rates will go up, a senior official economist said Monday.
That means the monthly flow of the speculative funds this year is nearly triple the average throughout 2007, Zhu Baoliang, from the State Information Centre, a think-tank under China's top economic planning agency, told AFP
"This is mainly because both the anticipation on the appreciation (of the Chinese currency) and the spread between (domestic and foreign) Interest rates are expanding," hesaid.
Zhu said earlier that the amount of hot money into the country stood at 120 billion dollars last year, according to reports in the state-run press on Monday.