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The WTO and environmental provisions: three categories of trade and environment linkage
Khalilian, Setareh - 2009
The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only unclear but also lacks economic reasoning. It aims to...
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International trade and pollution in shared resources: A study of international rivers
Sigman, Hilary - 2002
This paper examines whether trade relationships facilitate resolution of international environmental spillovers. Trade might promote cooperation by providing opportunities for implicit side payments, allowing linkage between nvironmental and trade concessions, providing direct leverage over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318353
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The interface between the trade and climate change regimes: Scoping the issues
Low, Patrick; Marceau, Gabrielle; Reinaud, Julia - 2011
As governments increasingly adopt policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, concern has grown on two fronts. First, carbon leakage can occur when mitigation policies are not the same across countries and producers seek to locate in jurisdictions where production costs are least affected by...
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A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks
Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013
China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328696
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Distortion Effects of Export Quota Policy: an Analysis of the China - Raw Materials Dispute
Charlier, Christophe; Guillou, Sarah - 2014
The China - Raw Materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US, the EU and Mexico as claimants on the somewhat unusual issue of export restrictions on natural resources. For the claimants, Chinese export restrictions on various raw materials, of which the...
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Kyoto-Protokoll, Wettbewerb und WTO-Handelssystem
Shin, Soonjae - 2003
Es wird häufig angenommen, dass nationale und grenzüberschreitende Klimapolitik, die aufgrund des Kyoto-Protokolls in den Industriestaaten eingeführt wird, durch die Einschränkung der Nutzung fossiler Energieträger ökonomische Kosten verursacht. Damit kann es zwischen den...
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Optimal environmental border adjustments under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Balistreri, Edward; Kaffine, Daniel; Yonezawa, Hidemichi - 2016
A country's optimal environmental border policy includes a strategic component that is inconsistent with commitments under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). We extend the theory to include GATT compliance. Theory supports optimal border adjustments on carbon content that are...
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Intellectual property rights and the WTO
Budzinski, Oliver; Monostori, Katalin - 2012
In the context of the WTO, intellectual property rights (IPR) are codified in the TRIPS-agreement. While covering all the different types of IPR, landmark cases of the still young history of TRIPS have dealt with commercial copyrights. This paper summarizes the basic economics of the IPR branch...
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Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System after Doha
Srinivasan, T. N. - 2002
The Fourth Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), held in Doha, Qatar, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369126
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Die Zukunft des Welthandels
Görg, Holger; Klein, Martin; Pflüger, Michael; Krebs, … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 95 (2015) 5, pp. 303-318
Since the 1950s, world trade has grown much faster than global economic production. Meanwhile, China has surpassed … Partnership, have attained dominance in the world trading system in recent years. Some of the well-known weaknesses of regionalism … world trading system require a strengthening of the WTO's multilateral system. But the current bilateral and regional trade …
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