2001-04-05
Imperialists always bring up market forces when it comes to metric. So, it
would have made sense for the government to allow metric only in the
beginning. A package would be either metric only or metric/FFU. If market
forces were really on the side of FFU, then companies would have been forced
by consumer demand to include FFU.
It seems to me companies run by imperialists knew that wouldn't happen and
so they had a hand in forcing all the companies to include FFU. I'm sure
part of the "plan" was that products exported would also contain FFU and
thus the world market would be exposed and softened to FFU.
As the world softens and gets use to FFU, the demand for the US to convert
will end and in the end the US can stay FFU and keep pushing on the world.
Very devious, wouldn't say?
John
Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrt�mlich glaubt
frei zu sein.
There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they
are free!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, 2001-04-05 14:23
Subject: [USMA:12042] Re: TABD and a request about an off topic subject
Easy solution. The US needs to allow for metric only labelling. Since the US
is clearly in the minority (a minority of one to be exact) then the US
adoption of metric only labelling is the clear solution to the increased
costs of dual packaging. As metric only labelling appears to be the trend I
don't see where the 2009-12-31 deadline should be a problem for US
companies... unless of course they ignore the metric labelling issue until
2009-12-30.
greg
Sasktoon SK Canada
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2001-04-04 07:13:06 >>>
To all,
This TABD text from 2000-12-17 has never been on our list. See how the trap
of
a 'market driven permanent solution' is set here.
I will contact Mr. Pietracenza about this 'market driven' stuff.
Another question, **off topic** for US members of the list. Today I read in
a
letter in the Irish Times that a petition was signed by 17 000 US scientists
in
the fields of earth science, meteorology, biology and other natural sciences
which claims that there is no scientific proof that global warming is caused
by
emissions of greenhouse gases through human activities. Is that true? I wish
to
send a rebuttal to the paper if possible. Please let me know in private
e-mails
what this is about.
Han
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 17, 1999
Contacts:
Marietta Bernot: (202) 833-2970 (ITA)
Shawn Jarosz: (202) 833-2970 (ITA)
Jeff Werner: 202.414.1293 (US TABD)
Chris Duffy: 32 2 231.1728 (EU TABD)
TABD APPLAUDS EUROPEAN UNION'S DEFERRAL OF "METRIC-ONLY" LABELING DIRECTIVE
BRUSSELS (December 17, 1999) --- The Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD)
applauded the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers decision this
week to approve a 10-year deferral of the EU "metric-only" directive. If
implemented, the EU directive would have required all products sold in the
EU
to be labeled only in metric units, causing serious disruptions in
transatlantic trade.
U.S. and EU industry developed consensus recommendations at the TABD Rome
Conference to secure a ***market-driven solution*** to the metric labeling
issue. More than $126 billion in annual bilateral trade in consumer goods
and
$160 billion in capital goods exposed to increased costs from the
"metric-only"
labeling requirement. The requirement would have raised business costs,
adversely impacted consumers and forced many small companies out of the
transatlantic marketplace..
EU TABD Chair, Jer(me Monod, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Suez
Lyonnaise des Eaux said, "this welcome move by the EU will allow industry
time
to address differences in U.S. and EU labeling requirements in a
comprehensive
and permanent way." U.S. TABD Chair, Rick Thoman, President and CEO of Xerox
Corporation added, "this is a win for US and EU industry, and testimony to
TABD's continued success in working with the governments to find practical
solutions to transatlantic regulatory issues."
TABD leaders urged Governments to use the delay to continue working with
industry to find a ***market-driven, permanent solution*** to the remaining
differences in the U.S. and EU product labeling regimes.
Speaking on behalf of the TABD's metric labeling issue group, Jeanette
Wagner,
Vice Chairman, Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. said, "this step, combined with
the
recent progress in the U.S. to allow metric only as an option, is a good
example of how the US and the EU can work cooperatively to solve a difficult
problem."
TABD U.S. Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) Working Group Chair,
Candace
Chen, CEO of Power Clean 2000, added, "small and medium-sized enterprises,
which make up approximately 90 percent of companies engaged in U.S.-EU
trade,
will benefit significantly from the EU's decision. The delay eliminates the
prohibitively high and duplicative labeling costs which could have forced
many
SMEs out of the marketplace altogether."
The TABD, a unique business-led process launched by the EU and U.S. in 1995,
seeks to increase transatlantic trade and investment opportunities through
the
removal of costly inefficiencies from excessive regulation, duplication and
differences in the EU and U.S. regulatory systems and procedures.
*1999 TransAtlantic Business Dialogue. All Rights Reserved.
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