Article: World Trade Organization caught in the middle: are TEDS the only way out?

I. INTRODUCTION

The international community strives to achieve the common goals of environmental conservation and trade liberalization.(1) In the global community environmental conservation protects biodiversity and encourages efficient use of resources; the free flow of commodities promotes efficiency of labor as well as cooperation and unification among nations. These values are not inherently in conflict. Often, however, environmental protection measures are interpreted as contradictory to free trade rules.(2) It is the system of international trade and the interpretation of its obligations that tend to bring the goals of freer trade and environmental ...

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