The economic impact on America's products without a new national noise policy

The European Union is moving rapidly to implement new noise rules that may be used to block, or at least impede, the flow of U.S. products that are exported to Europe. Japan and other countries appear to be following the EU?s lead. Many American industries that produce noise-generating products are not prepared to deal with the engineering and manufacturing issues involved in making their products meet the EU noise requirements. The U.S. must develop an industry/ government partnership with a research component that will provide the basic technical