I'm not going to get into a discussion about how your proposed US legislation would be hugely expensive, ineffective, inhibit development, reduce available markets, while causing a backlash against the US for protectionism and de-facto global legislation. If there's one thing I understand it's sarcasm, and I know you didn't really expect that legislation to work. Especially seeing how much difficulty has been cause by the EU doing just that. And this really is not a good time to use Boeing-Airbus as an example of what happens to market share due to quality and delivery issues. Unless you really do believe it. ;-) Pete -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Leadfee Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Leadfree To temporarily stop/(start) delivery of Leadree for vacation breaks send: SET Leadfree NOMAIL/(MAIL) Search previous postings at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------