The GATT/WTO Committee on Trade and the Environment - toward environmental reform

Article Abstract:

A significant step toward environmental reform has been taken with the creation of a Committee on Trade and the Environment within the World Trade Organization (WTO) established in the Uruguay Round of negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The committee should consider both procedural and substantive reforms in GATT/WTO rules to promote sustainable development, including protection of international environmental agreements, establishment of guidelines on domestically prohibited goods, harmonization of procedures on eco-labeling, and use of intellectual property provisions to protect biodiversity.

Management, Planning, World Trade Organization, International environmental law, Environmental law, International, international

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Environment and trade as partners in sustainable development: a commentary

Article Abstract:

Thomas Schoenbaum does not realize that the GATT is not up to the task of dealing with environmental issues. A framework incorporating GATT and international environmental components is needed in order to work towards the goal of environmentally sustainable development. This framework will need to take into account differences in the cultures of the environmental and trade communities such as the former's greater accountability to the public and openness to public participation.

Criticism and interpretation, Schoenbaum, Thomas J.

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Executive Order 13,141 and the environmental review of trade agreements

Article Abstract:

Executive Order 13,141 required the US government to assess environmental consequences of trade agreements. The order has a positive effect in bringing environmental concerns into formulation of a commercial policy. It also may lead to more public participation in the process.

United States, Evaluation, Laws, regulations and rules, Environmental impact analysis, Commercial treaties, Trade agreements, Trade policy, Commercial policy

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