Linkages between trade policy and environmental policy

Options for the promotion of environmental standards on processes and production methods

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• Susanne Dröge

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• Lehrbücher
• Universitätslehrbücher

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This book explores the unresolved relationship between international environmental policy and trade policy, focusing on the contentious issue of standards related to processes and production methods (PPMs) in traded products. The central question is whether the manufacturing process and resource exploitation should influence market access, despite the product itself not reflecting this information. The World Trade Organization's principles suggest that they should, but exemptions are vague and require case-by-case legal judgments for application. The author argues that while international environmental agreements provide a framework for environmentally motivated trade measures, they lack the legal authority to be proactively considered. Labels and certificates emerge as the most effective policy tools to reveal the hidden environmental impacts of traded goods. The book addresses three key aspects: the relationship between multilateral environmental agreements that include trade measures and WTO rules; the potential for integrated negotiations in both fields to yield more efficient outcomes for trade and environmental protection; and the role of ecological labels in resolving trade rule conflicts arising from varying national treatments of similar products with different production processes.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007