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Book Internal Trade Barriers in the Environmental Protection Sector

Download or read book Internal Trade Barriers in the Environmental Protection Sector written by Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internal trade barriers, environment, GATT, investments, waste transportation, eco-labelling, management, industry.

Book Internal Trade Barriers in the Environmental Protection Sector

Download or read book Internal Trade Barriers in the Environmental Protection Sector written by Apogee Research and published by The Council. This book was released on 1994 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study reported in this document was designed to contribute to on-going work on policy harmonization and on the environmental protection provisions of the Agreement on Internal Trade. It first discusses ways of defining internal trade barriers, including impacts-based and principles-based definitions such as those contained in trade agreements. It develops a framework to help identify the trade impacts of environmental protection measures and to determine if the measures constitute internal trade barriers. Such measures include emission standards, product and packaging standards, eco-labelling, professional licensing, product charges, government procurement policies, and subsidies. The framework is then applied to 17 generic environmental protection measures including command-and-control regulations and economic instruments. The framework is also applied to existing measures that have been identified as internal trade barriers. Finally, the impacts of environmental measures on internal trade are evaluated.

Book Trade Barriers to the Public Good

Download or read book Trade Barriers to the Public Good written by Alex C. Michalos and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) were designed to strengthen investor's rights at the expense of community rights and environmental protection. Both deals have achieved their aims. Trade Barriers to the Public Good provides a detailed examination of NAFTA and AIT cases involving MMT - a chemical additive brought into Canada by the US company Ethyl Corporation Inc. When the Canadian federal government banned the importation of MMT under the Fuel Additives Act, Ethyl Corp. filed a claim under NAFTA Chapter 11 seeking US $201 million in damages. Alex Michalos uses a case study of MMT to reveal exactly how and why quasi-judicial international dispute processes provide significantly less protection for the public interest than the routine procedures for passing an ordinary Act of Parliament. Trade Barriers to the Public Good illustrates why and how constitutionally protected democratic rights are undermined by trade deals such as the one involving MMT and, failing termination of NAFTA and AIT - the author's first choice for remedial action - recommends precise changes in dispute settlement rules that are needed to protect individuals and the environment.

Book The Greening of Trade Law

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard H. Steinberg
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780742510463
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book The Greening of Trade Law written by Richard H. Steinberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

Book Environment and Trade

Download or read book Environment and Trade written by International Institute for Sustainable Development and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2000 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book International Trade and the Environment

Download or read book International Trade and the Environment written by Judith M. Dean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Trading Up

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Vogel
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-01
  • ISBN : 9780674044685
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Trading Up written by David Vogel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Economics of International Trade and the Environment

Download or read book The Economics of International Trade and the Environment written by Amitrajeet A Batabyal and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-02-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues related to environmental protection and trade liberalization have moved to the forefront of international policy agendas. The Economics of International Trade and the Environment explores - from an economic standpoint - many of the questions that are germane in increasing our knowledge of environmental policy in the presence of international

Book The Environment and International Trade Negotiations

Download or read book The Environment and International Trade Negotiations written by Diana Tussie and published by International Development Research Centre. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking forestry and agriculture as crucial examples, economists and political scientists from non-industrialized countries assess the debate between trade and the environment, analyzing international negotiations and how they affect the concerns of their countries. They review the contribution to environmental management by regional trading agreements in North and South America and southeast Asia. Brazilian-based international economist Tussie summarizes and concludes that the existing structures do not loop the countries into environmental management, and that a new organizational configuration is needed.

Book Trading with the Environment

Download or read book Trading with the Environment written by Thomas Andersson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should there be firmer restrictions on trade, with more policies aimed at protecting its environmental impacts, or would the environment benefit most from unrestricted free trade? Do importing countries have a responsibility only to their local ecosystems, or are they also responsible for environmental degradation caused by the production of traded goods in exporting countries? Trading the Environment examines both the dependence and the effects of international trade on the earth's life support systems and looks at ways in which trading regulations could be adapted to promote ecologically sustainable economic development. It addresses the issues from a fully integrated approach, focusing on the interrelations between ecosystems, economic development and trade. The authors provide a carefully constructed ecological and economic analysis of trade and the environment, examine the existing legal and institutional frameworks and set out 16 recommendations to achieve environment beneficial trade at both national and international levels. Trading with the environment was originally commissioned by the Swedish government and is already regarded thereon essential reference. It makes an excellent introduction as well as constructive analysis, both for students and for policy-makers and professional economics and other scientists working on the issues. Published in 1995

Book Effects of International Trade on the Environment

Download or read book Effects of International Trade on the Environment written by Caroline Mutuku and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Economics - Foreign Trade Theory, Trade Policy, grade: 1, , language: English, abstract: This paper looks into the effects the international trade has on the environment. Trade and environment is one of the most debated topics in management and economics studies over the years because of the increasing concerns on how international trade affects environment and vice versa. That said, the debate on trade and environment is not new, and it emerged in the early 1970s with concerns such as environmental protection, environmental policies on trade, and the impact on trade on environment. Most of the developed economies expressed interests on environmental degradation linked with the globalization process for instance, industrial pollution. In the 1980s, environmental concerns increased as more complex environmental issues were raised such as the climate change and the depletion of the ozone layer. Later in the 1990s, the sustainable development concept was introduced as trade liberalization and the globalization process accelerated. Several theories in support of international trade such as the economic theory has rendered the debate complex as the proponents of the economic theory argue that international trade is vital to economies because it results into a robust economic growth and also generates greater wellbeing of its citizens. That said, environmental policies and goals have been difficult to achieve during these debates. Diverse arguments exist about international trade with a few ecologists in favour of environmental protection as they argue that international trade has resulted into environmental depletion as the demand of world natural resources continue to increase. Of the two perspectives, there is an intermediate concept which has been proposed, the sustainable development which means that as international trade results into economic growth, this growth must be accompanied by environmental policies and strict environmental protection rules. Some of the defenders of sustainable development have supported free trade but with the inclusion of restrictions in multilateral negotiations so as to control the degradation of natural resources.

Book Trade Barriers in the Triad Communities

Download or read book Trade Barriers in the Triad Communities written by Jens Hillebrand and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,0, University of Glamorgan (Business School), course: International Business and Export Management, 40 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Trade barriers are closely linked to, if not a direct consequence of, the practice of international trade. Thus, in order to present the context in which this paper will argue, it will start by introducing international trade as a branch of economics, briefly outline its history and contrast a number of common economic theories. Some of these advocate free multilateral trade as a means to generate greater welfare for all participants whereas others see trade barriers as a necessity. The historical and theoretical overview will lead to the description of today's status quo in international trade relations. Building upon the illustration of the triad's role in contemporary international business the study will turn towards the discussion of the implications of trade barriers in the triad communities and examine if their reduction would be beneficial or unfavourable. Thereto trade barriers in the three economic blocs of the triad and their rationale will be presented first. The study will then proceed by highlighting the effects of these trade barriers on developing countries, on the applying countries themselves and on other members of the triad. In doing so the study will contrast the trade barriers' potential benefits with the costs they might inhere. Finally the study will discuss environmental as well as ethical aspects of the trade barriers. Evaluating and concluding on the trade barriers' implications the study will emphasise the overweighing benefits of a drastic reduction of trade barriers in the triad nations and evaluate the likeliness of such a trade liberalisation.

Book Trade barriers in the triad communities

Download or read book Trade barriers in the triad communities written by Jens Hillebrand and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-04-04 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,0, University of Glamorgan (Business School), course: International Business and Export Management, language: English, abstract: Trade barriers are closely linked to, if not a direct consequence of, the practice of international trade. Thus, in order to present the context in which this paper will argue, it will start by introducing international trade as a branch of economics, briefly outline its history and contrast a number of common economic theories. Some of these advocate free multilateral trade as a means to generate greater welfare for all participants whereas others see trade barriers as a necessity. The historical and theoretical overview will lead to the description of today’s status quo in international trade relations. Building upon the illustration of the triad’s role in contemporary international business the study will turn towards the discussion of the implications of trade barriers in the triad communities and examine if their reduction would be beneficial or unfavourable. Thereto trade barriers in the three economic blocs of the triad and their rationale will be presented first. The study will then proceed by highlighting the effects of these trade barriers on developing countries, on the applying countries themselves and on other members of the triad. In doing so the study will contrast the trade barriers’ potential benefits with the costs they might inhere. Finally the study will discuss environmental as well as ethical aspects of the trade barriers. Evaluating and concluding on the trade barriers’ implications the study will emphasise the overweighing benefits of a drastic reduction of trade barriers in the triad nations and evaluate the likeliness of such a trade liberalisation.