EC – Bed: Linen European Communities – Anti-dumping Duties on Imports of Cotton-Type Bed Linen from India

Tariffs versus anti-dumping duties

Article history: Received 3 March 2009 Received in revised form 14 July 2009 Accepted 3 September 2009 Available online 14 October 2009 Tariffs and anti-dumping duties are two important tools used to protect industries from foreign competition and to generate revenue. While the two tools have been studied extensively in separate contexts, little is known about their comparative effects. This pa...

Hospital Bed Utilization: Perceptions of Healthcare Practitioners from Northern India

 Background and Objectives: Hospital bed utilization is influenced by various factors, which may be categorized into patient-related, physician-related, and administration-related issues. It could be argued that the causes of inappropriate hospital bed utilization would be perceived differently by the clinicians and the patients. Given the unique role of clinical practitioners in quality of car...

Whither hospital linen? Two centre observational study of alien hospital linen.

An efficient linen service is a priority for any institutional healthcare system. Many sheets and pillowcases disappear, and pilfering has been considered as one explanation. In an effort to designate ownership and presumably to prevent theft, some units have stamped their laundry with an identifiable trust logo. We noticed that some hospital linen bore logos signifying a distant origin, and we...

The stench of tobacco industry dirty linen.

This issue of Tobacco Control contains four papers reporting revelations found in the 26 million page “haystack” of tobacco industry internal documents open to researchers and the public on the world wide web. Anne Landman, who since August 1999 has daily posted document gems on the Smokescreen website, summarises evidence on how the tobacco industry intimidates and retaliates against companies...

A Social Psychology Perspective on Improving Hotels’ Linen-Reuse Programs