WTO CONCERNS RAISED OVER REACH COMPLEXITY
November 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CLAIMS are being made at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that the complexity of the European Union's (EU) REACH chemical control system could break EU commitments under the WTO's technical barriers to trade agreement. Argentina, Brazil, the USA, South Korea, Australia, Japan, Canada, Taiwan, Chile, China, Mexico and Thailand claim REACH could impose illegally difficult tasks on exporters.
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CLAIMS are being made at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that the complexity of the European Union's (EU) REACH chemical control system could break EU commitments under the WTO's technical barriers to trade agreement. Argentina, Brazil, the USA, South Korea, Australia, Japan, Canada, Taiwan, Chile, China, Mexico and Thailand claim REACH could impose illegally difficult tasks on exporters.
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