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lw200701122206316465 |
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| 论文语言：English |
| 论文国家：U.K. |
| 登出日期： 2007-01-12 |
| 字数： 4750 |
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| 关键词搜索：Free Trade Environment Protection |
on, but actually not, because environment standards they use are not always for environmental protection, but for something else. The NAFTA6 is a good example, what the US labour unions wanted to do was that they want to prevent the loss of job to lower-cost Mexico. It seems that they are more concerned with environment of the whole world, but actually not, because they export goods that are domestically prohibited in their own territory to the developing countries, they even export hazardous and other wastes to the developing countries. It seems that they are more concerned with environment of the whole world, but actually not, because they are more powerful, they use the carrot and the stick to raise environmental standards, but they are miserly in finance and technology assistance. The developing countries are left to be lack of information and technology to change their production methods to meet the environmental standards.
However, on the other hand, many environmentalists are critical of trade liberalization. In their view, free trade is responsible for many aspects of environmental degradation and for the failure of policy makers to protect the environment adequately.
They argue that free trade shifting the production of pollution-intensive goods toward the low-income, high-polluting South and that will increase global pollution, because the decrease in northern emissions is insufficient at the margin to compensate for the increase in southern emissions. T英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】hey also think that because pollution is not local but trans-boundary or global in nature so pollution in one country may affect another country?s environment. Green house is a good example.
Another important argument that environmentalists hold is that the trade liberalization can make the developing countries and developed countries lower the environment standard together. Why? In practice, every businessman wants to make the great profits in the international business, whereas lowering the cost is the best and most efficient way. Since WTO agreements require member states to abolish the tariff barrier so as to make trade flow free and thus develop the domestic economy, the importation and exportation became easy. With revoking the tariff barrier, businessman thinks much more about the other aspects of the investment surroundings than the tariff. For some pollution-intensive products, the environment requirements become the most important. The developing countries want to develop the economy as soon as possible. For them, the first important thing is to attract the foreign investment to develop domestic economy. The environment protection undoubtedly including the strong policies and requirement will increase the cost of some products?high requirements will improve the cost twice or three times than the cost under lower requirements so as to impede some pollution intensive industry. So the developing countries usually lower the environment requirements for some indus
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