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Mr. Reactionary
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« on: April 09, 2018, 08:36:35 PM »

To reemphasize the findings:

1. Pollution is bad.

2. Atlasian industry cannot reasonably be expected to incur increasing capital costs of compliance with environmental controls while its foreign competitors enjoy a substantial and widening competitive advantage as a result of remaining unfettered by pollution control obligations.

3. The significant and serious competitive advantage enjoyed by our foreign competitors from cost savings derived from the absence of effective pollution controls results in cheaper foreign imports which capture United States market share and injure United States industries.

4. The failure of a government to impose effective environmental controls on production and manufacturing facilities within its borders should be recognized for what it is--a significant and unfair subsidy which must be addressed now in order to halt irreversible damage to the world environment and provide real economic incentives to effective pollution control abroad.

Basically, this will allow us to impose countervailing duties on foreign imports that were not produced or manufactured under similar (or greater) environmental protections as we have here. The amount is limited to the price advantage, and the money raised goes into a fund to help  fund research into pollution control technology. This prevents unfair treatment of our workers, and will reduce the tension between workers and environmental regs as they no longer become a competitive disadvantage. This is good for Atlasian workers and good for the environment.

This bill was based on an idea Sen. Boren of Oklahoma had pre-Nafta.
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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2018, 08:30:52 AM »

Interesting, and if I may say so rather innovative. The spirit of the bill I share, I find it rather disgraceful how several nations get away with environmentally questionable practices. Can the sponsor elaborate a bit on what the consequences of this bill might be for our current free trade arrangements and what sort of backlash we might expect?

Sorry for my tardiness. I will answer this soon. With maps.
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« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2018, 04:36:47 PM »

Below are all countries Atlasia currently has free trade agreements with (The 3 pending are the lighter blue ones).



As far as our current FTAs, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Botswana are expressly exempt from the lacey act.

As far as compliance issues are concerned, I would say China, and the Latin American and African countries would be the most likely to be affected, although the African, Singapore, S. Korean, Morocco, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, and CAFTA all have specific language already allowing for countervailing duties for other unfair trade practices, so I wouldnt think this would cause too many trade issues with free trade partners other than China (which was forced on us anyway).

Vietnam and India on the other hand...

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« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2018, 12:08:53 PM »

I propose the following amendment.
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« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2018, 06:56:33 PM »

I consider this friendly. If there is too much of a trade imbalance we can revisit the issue in the future.
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« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2018, 09:20:11 AM »

Aye
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