  We consider chirality related effects in optical, photogalvanic and
electron-transport properties of carbon nanotubes. We show that these
properties of chiral nanotubes are determined by terms in the electron
effective Hamiltonian describing the coupling between the electron wavevector
along the tube principal axis and the orbital momentum around the tube
circumference. We develop a theory of photogalvanic effects and a theory of
d.c. electric current, which is linear in the magnetic field and quadratic in
the bias voltage. Moreover, we present analytic estimations for the natural
circular dichroism and magneto-spatial effect in the light absorption.
