Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind; Mensbrugghe, … - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2009
There is growing clamor in industrial countries for additional border taxes on imports from countries with lower carbon …, potentially creating pressure for trade action. A key factor affecting the impact of any border taxes is whether they are based on … the carbon content of imports or the carbon content of domestic production. The paper's quantitative estimates suggest …