EU-AMERICAN TRADE DEAL MIGHT REMOVE BARRIERS TO PLASTICS COMMERCE
July 1st, 2013
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) might accept American-made plastics as being safe enough to sell in the EU without them being subject to full-scale European chemical controls, under a planned EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Negotiations for what would be the world’s largest bilateral trade deal are now underway and the European Commission has released its initial negotiating documents, which indicate that Brussels could be prepared to accept American standards under a mutual recognition formula with Washington in some cases, while on others agree ...
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