RE: Finger-Lickin' stinking :-(3 Jun 2019 21:44
EU actually have too many laws and patents preventing goods from the US coming in. For example buffalo mozzarella is a protected regional cheese, so in the EU it has to come from there. provinces of Caserta and Salerno.
"Buffalo mozzarella is a €300m ($330m) per year industry in Italy, which produces around 33,000 tonnes of it every year, with 16 percent sold abroad (mostly in the European Union)."
The EU creates barriers preventing other countries dealing with us, for example you get a product from Germany for £10. China will do the product for £6 but the EU will not allow it and say that only Germany can do that product.
If works both for and against, your protecting businesses but it doesn't allow synergy. So companies never involve the product and eventually we end up with overpriced crap.