In a message dated 2/1/99 8:33:57 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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<< Why is everyone in the US getting so bent out of shape with what happens in
 Europe? The larger manufacturers already have facilties there, and the cost
 of shipping electronics across the Pond must be prohibitive? I must be
 missing something crucial here: so what is it?

 Thanks!

 Andy >>

Hi ya'Andy!

I believe it's because of the ISO thing and how it became the big "buzzword"
there for a while amongst american companies if they planned on marketing in
Europe, we were told you had to be a ISO certified company to sell in Europe.

I think it's the same thing with lead, since they plan on banning it, if you
want to sell anything there you'll have to certify that your products were
manufactured in a lead-free environment as well, or if it hasn't come to that
yet, you can plan on it, I'm sure...

Paul Klasek alluded to that sort of thinking in his reply to this thread with
his statements:

"The Euro establishment should give everybody clear indication the 'good ol'
motherland will protect it's own market by any well sounding bull possible ;

and a good eng. can make a feasibility study black or white as well as a
good lawyer :

The glittering politically correct top of fiscal iceberg heading the Apple
way does have much more sinister base.

-Steve Gregory-

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