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5. Europeanization of US Chemical Policy?

Author : Ondřej Filipec

Published in: REACH Beyond Borders

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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The EU represents for US companies a very important market in the terms of chemicals. In 2014 US chemical export counted for almost $164 billion USD while import in chemicals counted for $183 billion USD. In the terms of export, the most important partner according to percentage share are the remaining two NAFTA countries: Canada (14.62%) and Mexico (9.95%). On the third place is Belgium (7.51%), which is followed by Japan (6.08%) and China (5.9%). However, if we count EU28 as one subject, the share of the EU on the US export is 30.5% (WITS 2015).

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Title: Europeanization of US Chemical Policy?
Author: Ondřej Filipec
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: REACH Beyond Borders
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-54153-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-54154-9

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54154-9_5

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