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2007-10-27 Europe

Sarko backs carbon tax, EU levy on non-Kyoto imports

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Middle East Peace Process Check.
Global Warming Check.
What's next?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-10-27 01:40|| 2007-10-27 01:40|| Front Page Top

#2 From Wikipedia:

On July 25, 1997, before the Kyoto Protocol was finalized (although it had been fully negotiated, and a penultimate draft was finished), the U.S. Senate unanimously passed by a 950 vote the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98),[62][63] which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States".

On November 12, 1998, Vice President Al Gore symbolically signed the protocol.

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-10-27 01:58|| 2007-10-27 01:58|| Front Page Top

#3 If the EU does that, expect complaints to the WTO from the US/Aus in short order. 'Targetting' works both ways Sarko...

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-10-27 06:17|| 2007-10-27 06:17|| Front Page Top

#4 .....but any such levy is bound to be targeted at imports from the United States

I have no idea the US still exporting anything?

Posted by Besoeker 2007-10-27 06:28|| 2007-10-27 06:28|| Front Page Top

#5 If this kills the WTO, it's OK with me.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-27 07:41|| 2007-10-27 07:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Just what France needs, another tax...

Posted by Raj 2007-10-27 08:18|| 2007-10-27 08:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Protectionism dressed up as science policy. Check.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-10-27 09:43|| 2007-10-27 09:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Excellent. This is just the shot in the arm Detroit needs. What? Want to unload your freighter? I don't think so Fritz and Jacques.

Posted by ed 2007-10-27 10:29|| 2007-10-27 10:29|| Front Page Top

#9 I have no idea the US still exporting anything?

omg

Posted by Whaimble McCoy7072 2007-10-27 10:43|| 2007-10-27 10:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Boeing? Catepillar? Micro$oft?

Not so much railroad steel anymore tho, or vaccuum tubes.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-10-27 12:55|| 2007-10-27 12:55|| Front Page Top

#11 I have no idea the US still exporting anything?

Manufacturing base, jobs...

Posted by Natural Law 2007-10-27 15:48|| 2007-10-27 15:48|| Front Page Top

#12 LOL, they're going to eat their own...

"according to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 60% ($14 billion) of U.S. exports to France were made by French subsidiaries"
http://www.ambafrance-us.org/franceus/trade.asp

Posted by Darrell 2007-10-27 15:57|| 2007-10-27 15:57|| Front Page Top

#13 Whoops! Good find, Darrell.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-10-27 22:11|| 2007-10-27 22:11|| Front Page Top

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