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EU Planned to Ban Popular British Tea Kettles, Toasters

by Chriss W. Street Just two months before the Brexit vote, the European Union announced that it would begin banning the most popular “high powered” British tea kettles and toasters. With British consumption of tea outstripping continental Europe’s average by a factor of six, the European Commission (EC) had quietly delayed the implementation of new “ecodesign” restrictions on small household appliances during the run-up to the Brexit referendum vote over fears that bans would be perceived as an assault on the British staples of tea and toast. But European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, in his weekly College of Commissioners meeting… View Article