Posts Tagged ‘EU’

Will the European Commission challenge US labelling rules?

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

A recent posting by NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) has prompted this question: Are American labelling requirements now illegal under WTO rules?

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Big Bang vs “voluntary gradualism”

Friday, December 11th, 2009

A correspondent asks whether countries that carried out their metrication programme quickly fared better or worse than countries that have tried to do the job gradually and voluntarily.

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