An interesting article on the reach of multi-national regulation. New Power for 'Old Europe'
I found this para interesting, because it seems to parallel a tactic that has been used for WMDs and BMD.
wrt this statement:
"The State Department's tone and apocalyptic predictions that REACH could adversely affect "the majority of U.S. goods exported to the EU" (over $150 billion last year) mirrored the position papers of the industry's main lobbying organization, the American Chemical Council, on REACH."
This:
"Zoellick's objections to REACH prompted Senators Frank Lautenberg and James Jeffords to request that he provide details about who the Administration consulted before issuing its position to the WTO. "We are troubled," the senators wrote Zoellick on October 19, "by reports that the Administration fashioned its position on REACH to reflect unsubstantiated cost concerns raised by a narrow segment of U.S. industry, without any genuine consideration of the likely health and environmental benefits that such policies would generate." Thus far there has been no response to their queries."
Now I don't like the WMD scam, and I'm even less taken with the arguments put forward for Ballistic Missile Defence, but it does seem that the people forming these approaches live in a different reality.
Just maybe a hole in trade that's one third if the present imbalance may get their attention.
Like the story of the sparrow, the cow, and the cat, not everyone who poops on you is your enemy, and not everyone who gets you out of the poop is your friend.
I found this para interesting, because it seems to parallel a tactic that has been used for WMDs and BMD.
wrt this statement:
"The State Department's tone and apocalyptic predictions that REACH could adversely affect "the majority of U.S. goods exported to the EU" (over $150 billion last year) mirrored the position papers of the industry's main lobbying organization, the American Chemical Council, on REACH."
This:
"Zoellick's objections to REACH prompted Senators Frank Lautenberg and James Jeffords to request that he provide details about who the Administration consulted before issuing its position to the WTO. "We are troubled," the senators wrote Zoellick on October 19, "by reports that the Administration fashioned its position on REACH to reflect unsubstantiated cost concerns raised by a narrow segment of U.S. industry, without any genuine consideration of the likely health and environmental benefits that such policies would generate." Thus far there has been no response to their queries."
Now I don't like the WMD scam, and I'm even less taken with the arguments put forward for Ballistic Missile Defence, but it does seem that the people forming these approaches live in a different reality.
Just maybe a hole in trade that's one third if the present imbalance may get their attention.
Like the story of the sparrow, the cow, and the cat, not everyone who poops on you is your enemy, and not everyone who gets you out of the poop is your friend.