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Big Business Hijacks GATT
Wysham, Daphne | December 17, 1990 issue

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The article presents information on revised General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Under GATT an obscure panel of scientists based in Rome called Codex Alimentarius will be empowered to review existing environmental, health and safety standards in all the signatory nations, with the goal of "harmonizing" regulations according to Codex's application of "sound science." Regulations deemed too stringent would be cited as unfair trade practices subject to heavy penalty. Whether the U.S. negotiators' Codex proposal is adopted depends on whether GATT negotiators arrive at an agreement and on whether Congress approves it.

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TRADE regulation; ENVIRONMENTAL health; HEALTH risk assessment; COMPETITION, Unfair; SAFETY; COMMERCE
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