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GATT trade rules and the environment. (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)

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| October 01, 1993 | Mikesell, Raymond F. | COPYRIGHT 1993 Western Economic Association International. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

I. INTRODUCTION

This paper focuses on the relationship between trade rules contained in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the ability of the signatories to these agreements to protect their own and the global environment. The public debate on this question involving the major conservation organizations, on the one hand, and the GATT secretariat and the U.S. trade representative, on the other, often gives the impression that free trade and the environment are conflicting objectives. The position of this paper is that a viable set of trade rules can establish the essential conditions for ...

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