Trade Policies and Environmental Provisions

P. K. Rao
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P. K. Rao: Center for Development Research

Chapter 5 in The World Trade Organization and the Environment, 2000, pp 95-118 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There exists a long history of the attempts to integrate environmental considerations into trade policies at the global level. In more recent years since the 1970s, the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment marks an internationally significant event. During the preparatory phase to the Stockholm Conference, the Secretariat of GATT prepared a study entitled ‘Industrial Pollution Control and International Trade’. It focused on the implications of environmental protection policies on international trade, reflecting the concern of trade officials at the time that such policies could become obstacles to trade, as well as constitute a new form of protectionism, ‘green protectionism’. At the November 1971 meeting of the GATT Council of Representatives, it was agreed that a group on Environmental Measures and International Trade (also known as the EMIT group) be established. However, the group would only convene at the request of Contracting Parties, with participation being open to all. No requests had come forward for its activation during the subsequent two decades. A wake up call in 1991 was motivated by the impending 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), and the need for GATT to contribute in this regard.

Keywords: World Trade Organization; Trade Policy; Uruguay Round; World Trade Organization Member; Phytosanitary Measure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333993958_5

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