Brussels, 12/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - Oxfam has welcomed the intention of the EU to take trade measures to help countries directly affected by the tsunami, but calls upon the European Commission to go beyond the initiatives announced on Tuesday (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.10), with an immediate end to all import duty on textiles and clothing items imported from the Asian countries in question. According to Oxfam's calculations, in 2004 the EU levied customs duty totalling 57 million EUR on...