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Environment and GATT/WTO

In: Green Trade Agreements

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  • Dale Colyer

    (West Virginia University)

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The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was created in 1947 as a replacement for an international trade organization proposed in the Bretton Woods conference that also was responsible for the United Nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The trade organization could not get approval and, hence, the GATT was developed with 23 nations as members (WTO 2010d). Environmental concerns had not been an important issue in the several rounds of GATT negotiations that preceded the Uruguay Round and probably would not have become a major issue then except for the concerns raised as a result of the Mexico-US tuna dispute that had ruled against the US restrictions on imports of tuna that had not been caught using dolphin safe procedures.

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  • Dale Colyer, 2011. "Environment and GATT/WTO," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Green Trade Agreements, chapter 5, pages 48-63, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-34681-9_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230346819_5
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