Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1485:
The WTO and Environmental Provisions: Three Categories of Trade and Environment Linkage
Setareh Khalilian
Abstract: 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
Keywords: WTO, environment, trade sanctions; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F13,; F18,; K33,; B52; (follow links to similar papers)
26 pages, February 2009
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