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| November 2001 |
| Protection(ism) :
the Environment and the WTO |
| Lionel Fontagné |
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| The environment has become a central issue
for the World Trade Organisation. Multilateral agreements on the environment have
consequences for trade which may come into conflict with the fundamental principles
of the organisation. Furthermore, international trade has repercussions on the
environment, on health and human safety, on the living world, from which countries
are seeking to protect themselves. This raises the question of where exactly the
border between protection and protectionism lies. Research using an original database
makes it possible to identify the watershed between the two. It shows that the
line is often crossed. It also suggests that environmental barriers are strongly
discriminatory, clearly penalising the least developed countries. An examination
of the impact of environmental measures on market access has been included on
the agenda of the trade round which opened in Doha. It is vital that the issues
in this field be clarified if the environment is not to become an alibi for reintroducing
barriers to trade which have been suppressed elsewhere |
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| Market
Access Maps: a Bilateral and Disaggregated Measure of Market Access, Working
Paper n° 01-18, December 2001 |
Reference Working Paper |
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