[Info-vax] Latest TCPIP Services seem irreparably horked...

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:47:04 -0500, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> On 3/5/2012 9:16 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
>> On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:10:53 -0800, John Wallace wrote:
>>
>>
>> One thing I do recall several European car manufacturers getting taken
>> to court for was their reluctance to supply right hand drive models
>> from Europe for export to the UK.  Significant savings could be made by
>> customers doing this, but the manufacturers were trying to block their
>> ability to do so.
>>
>>
> This seems most peculiar!  What legal theory holds that a manufacturer
> in, say, France, has a duty to supply right hand drive vehicles for use
> in the UK?  It may be profitable for them to do so but I have trouble
> seeing a duty there.

It was European Economic Community (EEC, now renamed to EU) law and to do 
with free trade.

> It's my understanding that this situation is ancient history, the Brits
> finally joined the rest of the world.  Seems to me it was twenty or more
> years ago.

It still needed to go to court though.

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Paul Sture