It's difficult for me to speak to the plastics industry because I represent the manufacturers of the additive--and only of one particular additive.
I know there are concerns that old technology is used in places like Russia, China, and that they're not meeting the same standards being met in the United States and Canada. Now, where North American companies may have opened up a plant, materials sold into the regions from those plants would meet the same standards as they meet in North America, or in Europe for that matter. But many times it is the state-run agencies or the state-run plants that aren't giving concern to workers, to process, or to the environment.
Certainly I've been in discussions with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to try to make sure the same standards are met in places like China. It's a challenge.