Dirty Exports and Environmental Regulation: Do Standards Matter to Trade?
How to address the link between environmental regulation and trade was an important part of discussions at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Doha, Qatar in November 2001. Trade ministers agreed to launch negotiations on trade and the envi...
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ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS & PROTOCOLS WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION TRADE NEGOTIATIONS TRADE AGREEMENTS POLLUTION INTENSITY ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS EXPORT PERFORMANCE METALS EXPORT-IMPORT TRADE NONFERROUS METALS IRON STEEL MANUFACTURING CHEMICAL INDUSTRY ABATEMENT COSTS AGRICULTURE AIR POLLUTANTS AIR POLLUTION ARABLE LAND ARSENIC BILATERAL TRADE CERTIFIED COMPANIES CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CHLORINE CLEAN AIR CLEANING COAL COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVENESS CONSERVATION CONSERVATION OF NATURE DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DIRECT INVESTMENT DOMESTIC POLICY ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMICS RESEARCH EMISSION STANDARDS EMISSIONS EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH EMPLOYMENT ENDOGENOUS VARIABLES ENFORCEMENT MEASURES ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARD ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY EXPENDITURES EXPORTS FREE TRADE GAS GDP GNP HIGH LEVELS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMPORTS INCOME INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION INTERNATIONAL TRADE IRON LABOR FORCE LAND DISPOSAL LEGISLATION MANUFACTURING PLANT METALS MIGRATION NATIONAL BORDERS NATIONAL OUTPUT NATURAL RESOURCES NET EXPORTS OIL OZONE OZONE LAYER PAPER INDUSTRY POLICY INSTRUMENTS POLLUTION POLLUTION ABATEMENT POLLUTION HAVENS POLLUTION PREVENTION POLLUTION REGULATION PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCTION PROCESSES RAW MATERIALS RECYCLING SCREENING SOLID WASTE SULFURIC ACID TOTAL COSTS TOXIC CHEMICALS TRADE ORGANIZATION TRANSITION ECONOMIES TREATIES VALUE ADDED WASTE DISPOSAL WASTEWATER WATER POLLUTION WATER RESOURCES WEALTH WORKERS WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION WTO ZINC |
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ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS & PROTOCOLS WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION TRADE NEGOTIATIONS TRADE AGREEMENTS POLLUTION INTENSITY ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS EXPORT PERFORMANCE METALS EXPORT-IMPORT TRADE NONFERROUS METALS IRON STEEL MANUFACTURING CHEMICAL INDUSTRY ABATEMENT COSTS AGRICULTURE AIR POLLUTANTS AIR POLLUTION ARABLE LAND ARSENIC BILATERAL TRADE CERTIFIED COMPANIES CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CHLORINE CLEAN AIR CLEANING COAL COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVENESS CONSERVATION CONSERVATION OF NATURE DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DIRECT INVESTMENT DOMESTIC POLICY ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMICS RESEARCH EMISSION STANDARDS EMISSIONS EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH EMPLOYMENT ENDOGENOUS VARIABLES ENFORCEMENT MEASURES ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARD ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY EXPENDITURES EXPORTS FREE TRADE GAS GDP GNP HIGH LEVELS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMPORTS INCOME INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION INTERNATIONAL TRADE IRON LABOR FORCE LAND DISPOSAL LEGISLATION MANUFACTURING PLANT METALS MIGRATION NATIONAL BORDERS NATIONAL OUTPUT NATURAL RESOURCES NET EXPORTS OIL OZONE OZONE LAYER PAPER INDUSTRY POLICY INSTRUMENTS POLLUTION POLLUTION ABATEMENT POLLUTION HAVENS POLLUTION PREVENTION POLLUTION REGULATION PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCTION PROCESSES RAW MATERIALS RECYCLING SCREENING SOLID WASTE SULFURIC ACID TOTAL COSTS TOXIC CHEMICALS TRADE ORGANIZATION TRANSITION ECONOMIES TREATIES VALUE ADDED WASTE DISPOSAL WASTEWATER WATER POLLUTION WATER RESOURCES WEALTH WORKERS WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION WTO ZINC Wilson, John S. Tsunehiro Otsuki Sewadeh, Mirvat Dirty Exports and Environmental Regulation: Do Standards Matter to Trade? |
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Policy Research Working Paper;No.2806 |
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How to address the link between
environmental regulation and trade was an important part of
discussions at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in
Doha, Qatar in November 2001. Trade ministers agreed to
launch negotiations on trade and the environment,
specifically clarification of WTO rules. The authors address
an important part of the background context for deciding
whether or how to link trade agreements to the environment
from a developing country perspective. The authors ask
whether environmental regulations affect exports of
pollution-intensive or "dirty" goods in 24
countries between 1994 and 1998. Based on a
Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model, net exports in five
pollution-intensive industries are regressed on factor
endowments and measures of environmental standards
(legislation in force). The results suggest that, if country
heterogeneity such as enforcement of environmental
regulations is controlled for, more stringent environmental
standards imply lower net exports of metal mining,
nonferrous metals, iron, and steel and chemicals. The
authors find find that a trade agreement on a common
environmental standard will cost a non-OECD country
substantially more than an OECD country. Developing
countries will, on average, reduce exports of the five
pollution-intensive products by 0.37 percent of GNP. This
represents 11 percent of annual exports of these products
from the 24 studied countries. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Wilson, John S. Tsunehiro Otsuki Sewadeh, Mirvat |
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Wilson, John S. Tsunehiro Otsuki Sewadeh, Mirvat |
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Wilson, John S. |
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Dirty Exports and Environmental Regulation: Do Standards Matter to Trade? |
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Dirty Exports and Environmental Regulation: Do Standards Matter to Trade? |
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Dirty Exports and Environmental Regulation: Do Standards Matter to Trade? |
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Dirty Exports and Environmental Regulation: Do Standards Matter to Trade? |
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Dirty Exports and Environmental Regulation: Do Standards Matter to Trade? |
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dirty exports and environmental regulation: do standards matter to trade? |
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World Bank, Washington, D.C. |
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2013 |
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okr-10986-143302021-04-23T14:03:20Z Dirty Exports and Environmental Regulation: Do Standards Matter to Trade? Wilson, John S. Tsunehiro Otsuki Sewadeh, Mirvat ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS & PROTOCOLS WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION TRADE NEGOTIATIONS TRADE AGREEMENTS POLLUTION INTENSITY ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS EXPORT PERFORMANCE METALS EXPORT-IMPORT TRADE NONFERROUS METALS IRON STEEL MANUFACTURING CHEMICAL INDUSTRY ABATEMENT COSTS AGRICULTURE AIR POLLUTANTS AIR POLLUTION ARABLE LAND ARSENIC BILATERAL TRADE CERTIFIED COMPANIES CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CHLORINE CLEAN AIR CLEANING COAL COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVENESS CONSERVATION CONSERVATION OF NATURE DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DIRECT INVESTMENT DOMESTIC POLICY ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMICS RESEARCH EMISSION STANDARDS EMISSIONS EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH EMPLOYMENT ENDOGENOUS VARIABLES ENFORCEMENT MEASURES ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARD ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY EXPENDITURES EXPORTS FREE TRADE GAS GDP GNP HIGH LEVELS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMPORTS INCOME INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION INTERNATIONAL TRADE IRON LABOR FORCE LAND DISPOSAL LEGISLATION MANUFACTURING PLANT METALS MIGRATION NATIONAL BORDERS NATIONAL OUTPUT NATURAL RESOURCES NET EXPORTS OIL OZONE OZONE LAYER PAPER INDUSTRY POLICY INSTRUMENTS POLLUTION POLLUTION ABATEMENT POLLUTION HAVENS POLLUTION PREVENTION POLLUTION REGULATION PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCTION PROCESSES RAW MATERIALS RECYCLING SCREENING SOLID WASTE SULFURIC ACID TOTAL COSTS TOXIC CHEMICALS TRADE ORGANIZATION TRANSITION ECONOMIES TREATIES VALUE ADDED WASTE DISPOSAL WASTEWATER WATER POLLUTION WATER RESOURCES WEALTH WORKERS WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION WTO ZINC How to address the link between environmental regulation and trade was an important part of discussions at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Doha, Qatar in November 2001. Trade ministers agreed to launch negotiations on trade and the environment, specifically clarification of WTO rules. The authors address an important part of the background context for deciding whether or how to link trade agreements to the environment from a developing country perspective. The authors ask whether environmental regulations affect exports of pollution-intensive or "dirty" goods in 24 countries between 1994 and 1998. Based on a Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model, net exports in five pollution-intensive industries are regressed on factor endowments and measures of environmental standards (legislation in force). The results suggest that, if country heterogeneity such as enforcement of environmental regulations is controlled for, more stringent environmental standards imply lower net exports of metal mining, nonferrous metals, iron, and steel and chemicals. The authors find find that a trade agreement on a common environmental standard will cost a non-OECD country substantially more than an OECD country. Developing countries will, on average, reduce exports of the five pollution-intensive products by 0.37 percent of GNP. This represents 11 percent of annual exports of these products from the 24 studied countries. 2013-07-01T20:11:44Z 2013-07-01T20:11:44Z 2002-03 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/03/1743997/dirty-exports-environmental-regulation-standards-matter-trade http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14330 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No.2806 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, D.C. Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research |