Negotiating Regulatory Coherence: The Costs and Consequences of Disparate Regulatory Principles in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement Between the United States and the European Union
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 R I. The Formative Differences Between the Basic Regulatory Principles of the United States and the European Union . . 448 R II. The Impacts of Regulatory Incoherence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 R A. Differences in Industry and Trade Regulation between the United States and EU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 R 1. The Chemical Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 R 2. Regulation of GM products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455 R 3. The Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 R B. The Estimated Cost Impact of Non-Tariff Barriers Caused by Disparate Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458 R III. The Externalities of the TTIP and a Regulatory Coherence Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464 R IV. Reconciliation of the Cost-benefit and Precautionary Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467 R Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470 R
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