"Every year, China issues more than 10,000 new standards governing industries from mobile phones to autos," the article said, more than the rest of the world combined.
At least since the 1990s, there have been informal talks about an agreement that would reduce or eliminate already low tariffs and — more crucially for many businesses — harmonize regulations governing industries like pharmaceuticals and auto parts.
An uncommon market in the Caucasus Coalition adrift ReprintsThe ministry now in charge at once announced that it would "simplify" the environmental rules governing industry, suggesting a further relaxation of controls that have already proved ineffective.
Those egalitarian Swedes ReprintsThe ministry now in charge at once announced that it would "simplify" the environmental rules governing industry, suggesting a further relaxation of controls that have already proved ineffective.
In essence, all of the ways that we create energy, govern industries, construct buildings, cities, and transit systems, and use land for agriculture and resource extraction will have to change.
An inconsistent mixture of Labor Department opinions and lawsuit judgments has governed industry practice through the years, she said, adding, "It was time, long overdue, to clarify the rules".
Trading off steel tariffs and textile quotas against regulations governing service industries has proven the best way to break down the barriers in world trade.
Democrats credit the 1993 deficit reduction plan, augmented by the 1997 bipartisan balanced budget act, further moves to tear down trade barriers and the updating of legislation governing key industries like telecommunications and financial services.
Catherine Wannamaker, a lawyer for several environmental groups that support the moratorium, said six months is a reasonable time for drilling to be suspended while the government studies the risks and regulations governing the industry.
Robert Shireman, a former Department of Education official who helped craft the original regulations governing the industry, told the Times that lobbying by the industry played a role in "watering down" the final regulations.
Mr. Myers said his agents follow the tough consumer protection laws governing the industry in Texas.
