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The WTO and Environmental Provisions: Three Categories of Trade and Environment Linkage

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Setareh Khalilian
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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 structure WTO provisions and WTO case rulings so that their application to three separate dimensions of environmental damage is set out clearly: domestic, cross-border and global pollution. The paper concludes is that only cases of cross-border and global pollution can legitimize trade measures against environmental pollution, albeit only direct trade interventions are really effective in these cases

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Paper provided by Kiel Institute for the World Economy in its series Kiel Working Papers with number 1485.

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Date of creation: Feb 2009
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Keywords: WTO; environment; trade sanctions;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
F18 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Environment
K33 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - International Law
B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Institutional; Evolutionary

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