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歌手名：新概念第四册
歌曲名：8
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Lesson 8 Trading standards
First listen and then answer the following question.
What makes trading between rich countries difficult?
Chickens slaughtered in the United States,
claim officials in Brussels, are not fit to grace European tables.
No, say the Americans: our fowl are fine,
we simply clean them in a different way.
These days, it is differences in national regulations,
far more than tariffs, that put sand
in the wheels of trade betw-een rich coun-tries.
It is not just farmers who are complaining.
An electric ra-zor that meets
the European Union＇ safety standards
must be approved by American testers
before it can be sold in the United States,
and an American-made dialysis machine
needs the EU＇s okay before it hits the market in Europe.
As it happens,a razor that is safe in Europe
is unlikely to electrocute Americans. So,
ask businesses on both sides of the Atlantic,
why have two lots of tests where one would do?
Politicians agree, in pri-nciple,
so America and the EU have been trying to reach a deal
which would eli-minate the needto double-test many products.
They hope to fi-nish in time for a trade summit
between America and the EU on May 28th .
Although negot-iators are optimistic,
the details are complex enough
that they may be hard-pressed to get a deal at all.
Why? One diffi-culty is to construct the agreements.
The Americans would happily reach one accord on standards
for medical dev-ices and then hammer out
different pacts covering, say, electronic goods
and drug manufacturing.
The EU-following fine continental traditions-
wants agreement on general principles,
which could be applied to many types of produ-cts
and perhaps ex-tended to other countries.