EUROPEAN COMMISSION CLAIMS US LABELLING RULES AND ECO-TAXATION ARE UNFAIR TO EURO-MANUFACTURERS
August 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE is much work required by the United States government and the European Union (EU) to disarm trade barriers impeding EU auto exports, a new European Commission report has claimed.
The EU executive highlights three particular grumbles with existing US legislation, it claims gives American (and Canadian) automakers unfair advantages over European rivals.
These are the American Automobile Labelling Act, the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) payment and the so-called Gas Guzzler Tax. They are among the outstanding tariff, subsidy and trade ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.