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| A First Assessment of Environment-Related
Trade Barriers |
Lionel Fontagné
Friedrich von Kirchbach
Mondher Mimouni |
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| International trade can affect
the environment in different ways. This may justify the introduction of border
measures by the importing countries. However, abuse of environmental arguments
for protectionist reasons is likely. In order to disentangle protectionism from
dispositions justified on the grounds of true environmental concerns, we systematically
review notifications of all importing countries of the 5000 products traded at
the world level. We find that 88% of world trade is potentially affected, while
half of world imports potentially are subject to a protectionist use of such measures.
Agriculture, the automobile industry, the pharmaceutical industry and many other
sectors are concerned. LDCs’ exporters are the countries most affected by
these new trade policies. |
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| Trade policy, Environment, Protectionism,
SPS, TBT |
Keywords |
| F13, F18, Q01 |
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