International Trade And Environmental Regulation

Author : Richard H. Steinberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 0742510468

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The Greening of Trade Law by Richard H. Steinberg Pdf

In this first book to systematically compare how each of the world's major international trade organizations have handled environmental issues, leading specialists provide a balanced analysis of the development of trade and the environment rules in the World Trade Organization, the European Union, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the International Organization for Standardization, and other key organizations. Deftly combining policy and theory, the authors offer a range of heuristics and normative orientations in an effort to understand one of the globe's most contentious and timely dilemmas. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Xinpeng Xu
Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Competition, International
ISBN : UCSD:31822031187537

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International Trade and Environmental Regulation by Xinpeng Xu Pdf

This book sets out to examine one of the most important issues on trade and the environment namely, the trade effects of domestic environmental policy. The central question addressed is whether stringent domestic environmental policies reduce the international competitiveness of environmentally sensitive industries. This study is distinguished by two major innovations that go beyond the established literature: the examination of time-series evidence to explore the relationship between environmental regulations and trade patterns, and the introduction of technology factors, together with endowment factors, to explain the empirical evidence. To theoretically explore the dynamic linkage between environmental regulation, technological innovation and economic growth the author sets up an intertemporal dynamic general equilibrium model in which the more fundamental, dynamic determinant of economic growth is its capacity for technological innovation. The basic findings are that (1) changes in thestringency of environmental regulations do not have long-run growth effects; and (2) technological innovation is an important determinant of a country's long-run growth. The emphasis of this book is that the trade effects of domestic environmental policy can be better understood if one allows for a dynamic Ricardian technology factor in the conventional Heckscher-Ohlin framework. Innovation and subsequent increases in relative labour productivity, together with factor endowments, are important factors in determining the relationship between environmental regulation and international competitiveness. This result should help refocus the debate on the relationship between environmental regulationand competitiveness in international trade.

Author : Panos Delimatsis and Leonie Reins
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781783476985

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Trade and Environmental Law by Panos Delimatsis and Leonie Reins Pdf

This extensive volume of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law probes the essential concepts, contemporary research, and key elements of law at the intersection of international trade and international environmental law. Its succinct, structured entries provide a definitive and comprehensive assessment of the interactions between these fields, written by internationally renowned and recognized experts.

Author : Sandra L. Walker
Publisher : Publications Fac St Louis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 280280085X

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Environmental Protection Versus Trade Liberalization : Finding the Balance by Sandra L. Walker Pdf

Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of laws regulating the environment. Such laws aim to protect the environment of the legislating country and increasingly, the environment beyond its borders. While the objectives of these rules appear to be laudable ones, environmental regulation is frequently criticized as trade-restrictive and protectionist. In addition, attempts to regulate foreign production processes are attacked as interfering with the sovereign right of foreign countries to determine their own standards of environmental management. Environmental protection goals may also hinder international trade and consequently become vulnerable to legal challenge under international trade law. The manner in which international trade law weights the competing objectives of environmental protection and trade liberalization is the subject of this book. The experience of the European Economic Community in this regard provides a useful backdrop against which the treatment of environmental regulation under the GATT can be both examined and improved. The author concludes the GATT reforms, such as the incorporation of environmental principes into GATT jurisprudence, are critical to ensuring the legality of legitimate environmental protection measures. Such efforts would serve to safeguard both the environment and a more stable international trading system. The study was financed by the Brussels Capital Region through the Visiting Scientist's Programme.

Author : David Vogel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0674044681

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Trading Up by David Vogel Pdf

Health, safety, and environmental regulations have been traditionally perceived as distinct entities from trade policy, yet today they have become intertwined on a global scale. In this pioneering work, David Vogel integrates environmental, consumer, and trade policy, and explicitly challenges the conventional wisdom that trade liberalization and agreements to promote free trade invariably undermine national health, safety, and environmental standards. Vogel demonstrates that liberal trade policies often produce precisely the opposite effect: that of strengthening regulatory standards. The most comprehensive account of trade and regulation on a global scale, this book analyzes the regulatory dimensions of all major international and regional trade agreements and treaties, including GATT, NAFTA, the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States, and the treaties that created the European Community and Union. He explores in depth some of the most important trade and regulatory conflicts, including the GATT tuna-dolphin dispute, the EC's beef hormone ban, the Danish bottle case, and the debate in the United States over the regulatory implications of both NAFTA and GATT. This timely book unravels the increasingly important and contentious relationship between trade and environmental, health, and safety standards, paying particular attention to the politics that underlie trade and regulatory linkages. Trading Up is essential reading for the business community, policymakers, environmentalists, consumer interest groups, political scientists, lawyers, and economists.

Author : Elena Cima
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004467569

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From Exception to Promotion by Elena Cima Pdf

From Exception to Promotion: Re-Thinking the Relationship between International Trade and Environmental Law tells a new, unconventional story of the nexus between international trade and environmental law - a story in which the keyword is synergy rather than conflict, and where the trade regime was always meant for something greater than simply trade liberalization. This ‘something greater’ was peace in the first half of the 20th century. Today, it is sustainable development, environmental protection, and social inclusion. Environmental protection is therefore neither antithetical to the overarching purpose of the trading system nor simply a ‘non-trade’ issue to be incorporated within the trade regime, but rather part of its very nature and purpose. By telling this ‘untold’ story of the nexus, this book intends to raise historical awareness and open a constructive discussion on the future of the trade regime and of international economic law governance at large.

Author : National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (U.S.). Trade and Environment Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Commerce
ISBN : MINN:31951D00925978Q

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The Greening of World Trade by National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (U.S.). Trade and Environment Committee Pdf

A report to EPA from the Trade and Environment Committee of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology.

Author : Halina Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134192731

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Trade Investment and the Environment by Halina Ward Pdf

A discussion on the future of trade, investment and the environment. It sets out the trade, investment and environment agenda in the run-up to the Millennium Round of trade negotiations. Topics covered include: building markets for sustainable trade; environmental regulation; finance and transnational corporations; environmental regulation and international investment; and conflict resolution in the World Trade Organization. The contributors include Renato Ruggiero (WTO Director General), Brian Wilson MP (UK Trade Minister), and John Gummer MP (former UK Secretary of State for the Environment).

Author : Judith M. Dean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351783699

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International Trade and the Environment by Judith M. Dean Pdf

This title was first published in 2002: The interrelationship between international trade and the environment has become the subject of much heated debate. These complex and strong concerns are given voice in this comprehensive and accessible text that brings together the leading journal articles dealing with the fundamental questions about this most important international problem. International Trade and the Environment offers an invaluable source of contemporary international research for all those researching, studying or practicing across the fields of international trade, environmental economics, applied microeconomics and other related areas.

Author : Alice Pirlot
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781786435514

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Environmental Border Tax Adjustments and International Trade Law by Alice Pirlot Pdf

This timely book brings clarity to the debate on the new legal phenomenon of environmental border tax adjustments. It will help form a better understanding of the role and limits these taxes have on environmental policies in combating global environmental challenges, such as climate change.

Author : Matthias Busse
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Trade, Environmental Regulations, and the World Trade Organization by Matthias Busse Pdf

Author : International Institute for Sustainable Development
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 9781895536218

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Environment and Trade by International Institute for Sustainable Development Pdf

Reference tool to facilitate broader understanding and awareness of relationship between environment and trade which can then become the basis on which fair and environmentally sustainable policies and trade flows are built.

Author : Per Fredriksson
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821344587

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Trade, Global Policy, and the Environment by Per Fredriksson Pdf

QUOTEWe live in an increasingly interconnected world. Trade flows worldwide are growing rapidly and global production patterns are shifting as countries follow their comparative advantage in production via trade. At the same time, however, there is growing concern about potential adverse environmental impacts from increasing trade.QUOTE--John A. Dixon, Lead Economist, The Environment Department, World BankInterest in the trade and environment debate has intensified as a result of international trade agreements and because many proposed solutions to the climate change problem have potential implications for the global trading system. Clearly more empirical work is needed to inform the debate, guide policymakers toward solutions, and help set priorities.This volume is an attempt to further our understanding of the empirical links between trade and the environment. Thirteen chapters, which were presented as papers at a World Bank conference in April 1998, focus on three main themes:1. Effects of trade liberalization and growth on the environment2. The QUOTEpollution havenQUOTE hypothesis3. Economic instruments for resolving global environmental problemsThe papers address a number of different issues within each of the themes, offering new data or new questions and approaches. They are devoted to deepening our understanding and empirical knowledge of the various effects of trade liberalization. Only through a firm understanding of the linkages involved can well-founded policy advice be formulated.

Author : Durwood Zaelke,Paul Orbuch,Rob Housman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993-10
Category : Law
ISBN : UCSD:31822016714131

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Trade and the Environment by Durwood Zaelke,Paul Orbuch,Rob Housman Pdf

Trade and the Environment is an important primer for anyone concerned with the impact of trade agreements on the global environment. After examining some of the broader aspects of the debate, the book turns to specific concerns: When is it appropriate for one country to use trade measures to influence industrial behavior in another country? How are international environmental standards set? When are low environmental standards in one country a subsidy to that country's industries? With chapters representing the views of industrial leaders, trade advocates, environmentalists, international organizations, and policymakers from both the developed and developing world, Trade and the Environment provides insight into the full spectrum of issues, concerns, and parties involved in this critical debate.

Author : Bradly J. Condon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781571053664

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Environmental Sovereignty And the WTO by Bradly J. Condon Pdf

The growing body of WTO jurisprudence is of profound significance for the development of the general body of international law. With this in mind, Environmental Sovereignty and the WTO succinctly examines how the WTO law can contribute to achieving coherence between general international law, international environmental law and international trade law and avoid conflicts between trade liberalization and global environmental protection. Professor Condon argues that these three branches of law are generally consistent with each other in the area of international law where they intersect. However, WTO jurisprudence can benefit from a more explicit analysis, provided here, of the way that panel decisions fit into the general framework of international law. No law reforms are currently needed to facilitate this task. As the text shows, it is a matter of using the current WTO rules to resolve conflicts between treaties such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and to determine the circumstances in which unilateral trade measures should be permitted. The topics addressed in Environmental Sovereignty and the WTO will be of considerable interest to a broad audience given the global political controversy over American unilateralism, the fairness of WTO rules to poor countries, and the effect of trade rules on efforts to protect the global environment. However, the book addresses these controversial issues without sacrificing academic rigour and will appeal to a scholarly and professional audience seeking new approaches to addressing the problems raised by the globalization of law. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.