On 6/28/05 08:23:40, Ivan wrote: > IMO it's a non-tariff trade barrier, and should be challenged as one.
Why that? In a sense, every governmental regulation is a non-tariff trade barrier -- and the US has, like every country, quite a few of those. What about them? You're talking as if the European companies didn't have to spend the same effort to comply with that regulation. It's not that they solder with silver over there... > The US has only 1 vote, whereas the individual countries in the EU each > have 1 vote. The EU is not a country. Besides, would you trade a single NAFTA (or FTAA) vote for a single EU vote? Or would you trade votes by countries against votes by population numbers? > Oh, did I mention that the US does not have decent trade representation? IMO that's not only an issue of trade representation. It's also about even wanting to have international regulations. So far, most US governments seemed to think that any form of international regulation (which seems to be seen as translating to a loss of sovereignty) is not a good thing. That's not a good position from which to tackle issues of international regulation efficiently, of course :) Gerhard ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the OT discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/ot_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
