In dealing with the way American law evolves, it does not make sense to go and talk about Europe. Policy-makers in the U.S. are not interested in hearing what's happening in Europe, for the most part. So what some in the environmental community have done is extract pieces out of each of the principles and presented it to lawmakers in the U.S. as the Louisville Charter.
So that would be the way to deal with it. Find out how it's being contextualized in the U.S., because they're not talking about reach, they're talking about the Louisville Charter, which pulls on some of the basic principles and hasn't been widely adopted, but it has been promoted by the environmental community across the U.S. basin of the Great Lakes as a means of a stronger approach to regulating toxins.
I am sympathetic to the worry that we would be alienating trading partners. That being said, I have no worries that that concern will be adequately addressed in the corridors of power.