Comment by stronglikedan
3 hours ago
> They are mandated
That's nice and ideal, but unenforceable in reality unless the company has a presence in the EU.
3 hours ago
> They are mandated
That's nice and ideal, but unenforceable in reality unless the company has a presence in the EU.
Genuinely asking, if someone really wanted to play that game with the EU, could the EU escalate to preventing the import of the products?
> unenforceable
Law makers aren't stupid: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2025/7728... (the Hauge Convention 2019 has been ratified by the UK has been in effect ~10mo ago).
The UK wants to rejoin the Lugano Convention, too; though, it remains to be seen if EFTA/EU will let them in.