The World Trade Organization and the environment / P.K. Rao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rao, P. K.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Trade Organization.

Free trade.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

xvii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Contents:

1 Global Trade Regimes 3

1.2 Free trade, protectionism and managed trade 6

1.3 GATT 15

1.4 New trade regimes: regional and global 19

2 Trade, Environment and Development 31

2.2 Trade liberalization and development 32

2.3 International trade and the environment 36

2.4 Sustainable development: a synthesis of linkages 44

3 Multilateral Environmental Agreements 55

3.2 Environmental agreements with trade measures 58

3.3 Interface with trade policies 64

3.4 Harmful chemicals trade 66

Part II The World Trade Organization

4 WTO Articles of Agreement and Beyond 75

4.2 WTO - an institutional innovation 76

4.3 The Bretton Woods institutions and the WTO 80

4.4 Implications of the WTO charter 82

5 Trade Policies and Environmental Provisions 95

5.1 A brief history 95

5.2 GATT/WTO environmental provisions 97

5.3 CTE 103

5.4 National environmental laws and international trade agreements 110

6 Dispute Resolution Mechanisms 119

6.2 Legal foundations for dispute resolution 120

6.3 Trade-related environmental disputes in GATT/WTO 123

6.4 The Tuna-Dolphin dispute 126

6.5 Toward improved methods 130

Part III Policy Implications

7 International Trade and Environment: an Integration 141

7.2 Cost externalization and markets 142

7.3 Internalization of environmental costs 145

7.4 Ecolabels and their trade impacts 153

7.5 Integrating environment into subsidies agreement 154

7.6 The Precautionary Principle 155

7.7 The Polluter Pays Principle 157

7.8 Domestically Prohibited Goods for exports 160

8 New Role for the WTO 165

8.1 Revising the WTO articles for environmental provisions 165

8.2 Trade policy review mechanism reform 170

8.3 Multilateral environmental agreements and the WTO 171

8.4 WTO and sustainable development 172

9 Towards a Better Future 177

9.1 Multilateral trade, environment and development 177

9.2 Institutions for sustainable trade and development 180.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0333777204

OCLC:

183338465